Nancy Pelosi
You have to believe in who you are and what difference you can make. You have to care about the urgency and the difference it will make to your community, and you have to, again, have confidence in the contribution that you can make. You believe, you care, you have confidence in the difference that you can make. And that's not to be egotistical, it's just to be confident.Collection: Believe
I do trust that the president is sincere in understanding that the public supports - that overwhelmingly the public supports - not sending these young people back. It was interpreted by some that we had a deal on the deal. But that wasn't on the package. We had an agreement to move forward, in our view, with the DREAM Act as a basis for how we protect the DREAMers and for further discussions on what provisions relating to the border might be in an accompanying bill or whatever as we go forward. So I trust the president in that regard.Collection: Dream
This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008Collection: Expectations
Let's respect the dignity of women to make their own decisions about the size and timing of their families.Collection: Decision
When President [Barack] Obama was sworn in on the steps of Capitol, he asked for swift, bold action now for jobs and education for the 21st Century, a list, an agenda. One week and one day from that swearing in, the House passed the ARRA, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.Collection: Jobs
[Barack Obama] had already signed Lilly Ledbetter, signed SCHIP, the children's health insurance program. By the time he had his first address to the joint session, that is as it is called, the first speech, he could say, this is what I asked for, this is what we have done in the first four weeks.Collection: Children
The American people are very, very ready for a woman president. They're far ahead of the politicians. I always thought it would be much easier to elect a woman president of the United States than Speaker of the House, because the people are far ahead, as I say, of the electeds, on the subject of a woman being president.Collection: People
Older people are not going to evaporate from the face of the Earth for two years. They're going to have medical need and they're going to have to be attended to. And the earlier intervention for it, the less the cost will be and the better the quality of life.Collection: Two
And, cuts in education, scientific research and the rest are harmful, and they are what are affected by the sequestration.Collection: Cutting
On the subject of money and politics and the rest, I have a DARE: Disclose who are these people; Amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United; Reform: let's have public financing of campaigns; and Empower.Collection: People
By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.Collection: Country
Hillary Clinton has a vision, she has knowledge and judgment. She is a strategic thinker, based on her experience and her connection.Collection: Vision
We can all do better. America is an entrepreneurial society. We had entrepreneurs who started our country. And they want us to think in fresh, new, different ways all of the time.Collection: Country
President Obama came up with tremendous ideas, but he was blocked by the Republicans.Collection: Ideas
Nothing brings more money to the Treasury of the United States, than investment in education of the American people.Collection: People
What is key for winning the election is to be able to put forth a vision for our future and how this election affects people's lives.Collection: Winning
When someone challenges you, your supporters turn out.Collection: Challenges
In terms of winning the election, it's all about turnout and how we connect with the voter as to what it means in their lives to turn out to vote, to win the House, the Senate, statehouses, state governorships and the rest.Collection: Mean
I think many times young women do not give sufficient weight to the unique contribution that they can bring to any discussion or any cause. And they have within them something very special, and they should count all of their experiences as a plus.Collection: Unique
You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms of role of government and the rest is as ancient as - as old as America.Collection: Party
Women have come a long way, but it never fails to sadden me when I see younger women saying we have to overcome some obstacles.Collection: Long
The sequestration is a bad idea, all around. It is something that is out of the question. If you have spending cuts, education of our children, other investments, on the National Institutes of Health, where you are hindering growth, you're no going to reduce the deficit.Collection: Children
The good news is that we really do think that ... on the immigration issue, that we will, before summer, have comprehensive immigration reform.Collection: Summer
The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader.Collection: Iraq
It is clear that the American people are weary of war. However, Assad gassing his own people is an issue of our national security, regional stability and global security.Collection: War
The Republicans have been baying at the moon for seven years, in March it was seven years since the president signed the bill. They've been baying at the moon that they had a better idea.Collection: Moon
The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.Collection: Needs
When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.Collection: Kyoto Protocol
So when [Donald Trump] makes his address on the 40 days that he has been president, he has nothing to show for it but fear in every way.Collection: President
Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.Collection: Jobs
For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit.Collection: Daughter
My daughter Alexandra once told me, "Mother, you're a pioneer. Now, hardly anybody cooks, but you were one of the first to stop." After 20 years of cooking, I started to appreciate the value of other people's work. So I would, say, go get a duck in Chinatown. I always had the salad and set the table, but I didn't have to clean the pots.Collection: Daughter
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not be job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking.Collection: Children
President Obama and the congressional Democrats have certainly been responsive.Collection: President
Imagine in what the president [Donald trump] wants to do, the 400 wealthiest families in America will get a tax break of $7 million a year.Collection: Years
A successful marriage is a decision. You decide whether it's going to work, and then you turn around and you've been married 45 years.Collection: Successful
I was raised in an Italian catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. Our faith is very important to us, our patriotism, love of faith, love of family, love of country. I took pride in our Italian American heritage and to be the first woman speaker of the House and the first Italian American speaker of the House, it's quite thrilling for me.Collection: Country
I have always said, in my own rise in the leadership, please don't ever ask anybody to vote for me because I'm a woman.Collection: Vote
What I do care about is that it's an obstacle to other women entering politics, because they'll say, "Why would I do that? I have plenty of other options." And women with plenty of options are just the women that we want to be in politics and government.Collection: Government
I went to all-girls' schools my whole life, so every model of leadership that I saw was a young girl or a woman, and so there was never any hesitation that women could lead. I know what I believe.Collection: Girl
I do think that campaigns are about electing somebody, but they're also about a discussion of the future of our country.Collection: Country
I think that people have great anger over what happened in 2008 in terms of the economy.Collection: Thinking
Hillary Clinton is probably one of the best prepared people to walk into the Oval Office certainly in a generation, with all the love and respect and admiration that I have for President Obama, and he's been a great president, going in he was nowhere nearly as prepared as Hillary Clinton.Collection: People
I'm always touched when I go to events and stuff, to meet fathers who come up to me and thank me and say, "because of you my young daughter knows that she can do anything she sets out to do." And the way young girls are raised now, I don't think there's any doubt that they know they can do anything. And if what goes by the by is that they don't feel they have to be in solidarity with all other women, that's O.K. as long as they know that that strength has been there in the past and can be there in the future for them.Collection: Girl
On February 17th, Four weeks from [Barack Obama's] inauguration, he signed a bill which saved or created 4 million jobs.Collection: Jobs
People say to me all the time, "Oh, you do such a good job unifying the House Democrats." I say, "I don't. Our values unify us. We are unified with our commitment to America's working families about job creation, about budget policies that invest in the future, good-paying jobs."Collection: Commitment
Fashion and all that it implies - hair, makeup - is an art form. If you look organized and well presented, people think that you're organized in your mind and you take pride in yourself. And besides, it's fun. Isn't it fun?Collection: Fashion
My favourite dish is my chocolate mousse. It's like heaven on earth. It's the best chocolate mousse that you could ever imagine. You have to start with the highest-quality chocolate.Collection: Heaven
Do not ever say to anybody it's time for us to have a woman in the leadership, because that's the least important selling point.Collection: Important