A Quote by Maxine Waters

I have been an organizer and then activist and a legislator, all of that. But then there's this big gap after I advanced in Congress and ended up as the ranking member of financial services committee. It took me into the financial services issues and Wall Street and Dodd Frank. And it took me away from the things that I did years ago.

Maxine Waters

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Maxine Waters
American - Politician
Born: August 15, 1938

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