Quote Of The Day

I’ve always said when bad things happen to us, politicians say that’s too bad. When bad things happen to them, it becomes an emergency.

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We can be shot down in our district, but we can also be shot walking over to the Capitol. We have a lot of people outside who appear to be fragile emotionally. So we don’t know when one will walk up and shoot us down. We’re vulnerable, and there’s no real way to protect us. — Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), POLITICO interview When politicians and their pundits engage in hate speech, some even wishing for the deaths of their opponents, they thought they could just head off to their cocktail parties and remain unscathed. No justice, no peace! — Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), 1992 Los Angeles riot Let’s hope they now begin with some introspection and not just blame all of us while making themselves the innocent victims.