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I had to ask my grandchildren, 'What does it mean? I threw shade?'

The constant drip drop of fraudulent activities coming out of Wells Fargo is absolutely outrageous.

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If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will.

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I am going to help show the American people that they too cannot trust him, that this is a man that does not live up to his promises, and this is a man who cheated students in the so-called Trump University.

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Most African-Americans really do believe that we are voting for our better interest in voting for Democrats.

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This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

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Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal would be about socializing.

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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

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I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win.

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I had to ask my grandchildren, 'What does it mean? I threw shade?'

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We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines.

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I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.

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Some people see me as a rabble-rouser. Some people see me as someone who does not care about what other people think about me.

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I'm a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined.

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Women are prepared to run for office. They're prepared to show up. Oh yeah, women have big roles to play, and they have stepped up to the plate already.

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As you know in this committee, we have all of HUD, and HUD is responsible for so many programs that determine the quality of life for women and families.

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My Millennials, 'stay woke'.

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I don't have any presidential aspirations. If the millennials want me to do it, I'd do it, though.

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I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that.

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I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.

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A lot of young people don't have a lot of faith in politicians. You can't depend on what they say. They talk in circles. They don't speak the kind of language that has truth to them. I'm speaking differently.

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We should have hope because we've earned it. We've worked for it! It's ours.

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This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.

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That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

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We moan and groan all the time about a lack of involvement of young people. But they have taught me a lot about what moves them.

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I want to be the kind of elected official who not only pays attention but who acts on behalf of people - just average people. Fancy lobbyists get to tell their story, but the average person doesn't.

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Priebus has been trying to clean up for Donald Trump for far too long. When he was making outrageous statements, when he was basically lying.

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I have been working hard trying to implement Dodd-Frank reforms. We went through a terrible crisis in 2008. Many people lost their homes.

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Donald Trump has defined himself very well, not only in the primary election where he was absolutely disrespectful to his colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle and for Fiorina, who he basically said, 'Who would vote for you? Look at her face.'

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That's why investigations are so important, to drill down and to connect those dots and to get the facts. What we have is a lot of smoke that causes us to want to know more about what has happened.

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The women's movement was just coming into being, and I got involved with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug and all these great women. We then got involved with Carter, who was running for president, and we created the first International Women's Conference or the National Women's Conference for Carter.

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Ben Carson was appointed to be the HUD secretary. He knows nothing about the mission of HUD. He doesn't care about people in public housing. He believes that if you are poor, it is your own fault. And he doesn't know the difference between an immigrant and a slave.

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We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.

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I think the Democrats' role is to be vocal.

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Reaching out to other people is important work. I am so pleased and honored that I'm getting the attention from the young people on social media. It's been missing.

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This country cannot tolerate the fact that someone worked with Russia to undermine our democracy.

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