Nancy Pelosi
My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
I was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone.
The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.
The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.
Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.
The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.
They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
I had a friend who was getting married. I said, 'You're getting married - I didn't know about all this!' She said, 'I need health benefits.'
I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.
I know about raising money.
My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today.
I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.
My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'
Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.
Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
I never dread going back to Congress.
Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.
My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.
Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
I have a few uniforms - depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.
Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
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