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I know about raising money. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6. -- Nancy Pelosi
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.' -- Nancy Pelosi
For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality. -- Nancy Pelosi
You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject. -- Nancy Pelosi
Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice. -- Nancy Pelosi
If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry. -- Nancy Pelosi
Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand. -- Nancy Pelosi
Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government. In addition to the trade barriers, China has marred our trade relationship wit prison labor or export and other unfair trade practices. -- Nancy Pelosi
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.' -- Nancy Pelosi
Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process. -- Nancy Pelosi
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance. -- Nancy Pelosi
The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy. -- Nancy Pelosi
I'm Nancy Pelosi, but my grandchildren call me Mimi. For me, politics is an extension of my role as a mother and a grandmother. For the Democratic women of the House, our work is not about the next election, but rather the next generation. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from there. But I do tell you that if the Democrats win, and have substantial majorities, the Congress of the United States will be more bipartisan. -- Nancy Pelosi
I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory ... of how we are taking responsibility. -- Nancy Pelosi
My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore. -- Nancy Pelosi
Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either. -- Nancy Pelosi
But I would say, you know, if you're getting married - why are you getting married? Why would you get married? Why would anybody get married? -- Nancy Pelosi
Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes. -- Nancy Pelosi
As we move forward to debate our economic and fiscal challenges in the weeks and months ahead, one thing is clear: Our economic agenda, choices and decisions, will be viewed through the perspective and the eyes of our nation's women and their needs and those of their families. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong. -- Nancy Pelosi
We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us. -- Nancy Pelosi
I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about timing. And it's about timing as to when make cuts, as well. -- Nancy Pelosi
I never dread going back to Congress. -- Nancy Pelosi
I didn't know you were Catholic. (to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as he got down on one knee to beg Pelosi to find Democratic support for the bailout bill)-2008 -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am. -- Nancy Pelosi
I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.' -- Nancy Pelosi
I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship. -- Nancy Pelosi
Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons. There's no question about that. -- Nancy Pelosi
On GOP Tax Cuts: They'll take food out of the mouths of children to give tax cuts to the wealthiest. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system. -- Nancy Pelosi
Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate. -- Nancy Pelosi
No money changed hands, of course. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
There's plenty of opportunity for everyone, so there's no reason to worry about somebody else's success, either saying you couldn't do this so she's better than you, or she's doing it so you can't. No, she's doing it so you can. -- Nancy Pelosi
Go to find common ground; where you can't, you stand your ground. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
I always say the beauty is in the mix. -- Nancy Pelosi
Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age who are Catholic use contraception. Ok, so in practice the church has not enforced this and now they want the federal government and private insurance to enforce it. It just isn't consistent to me. -- Nancy Pelosi
As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. -- Nancy Pelosi
To have diversity of opinion in the debate strengthens the outcome and you get a better result. -- Nancy Pelosi
The more women we elect to public office, the more wholesome the whole process will be, whether it's government, politics, whatever. -- Nancy Pelosi
Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next. -- Nancy Pelosi
My statements are just a statement of fact. -- Nancy Pelosi
I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people. -- Nancy Pelosi
My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it. -- Nancy Pelosi
Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families. -- Nancy Pelosi
I don't know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, 'I hope you bomb Assad.' Certainly plenty have said, 'No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.' -- Nancy Pelosi
Organize, don't agonize. -- Nancy Pelosi
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, -- Nancy Pelosi
We will energize America by achieving energy independence -- Nancy Pelosi
I read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what? -- Nancy Pelosi
What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people. -- Nancy Pelosi
As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country. -- Nancy Pelosi
Even if Osama bin Laden is caught tomorrow, it is five years too late. To capture him now I don't think makes us any safer. -- Nancy Pelosi
Pass the bill to find out what's in it -- Nancy Pelosi
The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House. -- Nancy Pelosi
If women have confidence in themselves, they will have confidence in other women. -- Nancy Pelosi
Be yourself, know your power, have confidence in what you have to contribute. -- Nancy Pelosi
Hamas is a humanitarian organization. -- Nancy Pelosi
The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix. -- Nancy Pelosi
Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'. -- Nancy Pelosi
Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program -- Nancy Pelosi
Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one. -- Nancy Pelosi
Everybody will have lower rates, better quality, and better access. -- Nancy Pelosi
This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008 -- Nancy Pelosi
Politicians are trying to attract people to issues. -- Nancy Pelosi
For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit. -- Nancy Pelosi
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply. -- Nancy Pelosi
Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it. -- Nancy Pelosi
The fact is that a lot of the spending increases came during the Bush administration. Two unpaid for wars we got ourselves engaged in. A prescription drug plan that added enormous amounts to our spending, and the tax cuts at the high end that did not create jobs and create revenue coming. -- Nancy Pelosi
The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists. -- Nancy Pelosi
I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA. -- Nancy Pelosi
The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity ... then you are going to be surprised.-1985 -- Nancy Pelosi
I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do. -- Nancy Pelosi
I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
Anybody who's ever dealt with me knows not to mess with me. -- Nancy Pelosi
I come back to the science that is in it to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and climate change. It's about science, science, science and science, innovation, as we rebuild America, create jobs, invest in our people and turn this economy around. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans. -- Nancy Pelosi
We need major investments for rebuilding the infrastructure of America in a very forward-looking way that reduces our dependence on foreign oil. It is a commitment to innovation, to science, to keep America number one and competitive and grow our manufacturing base. -- Nancy Pelosi
As many of you know, I came from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one - it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means. -- Nancy Pelosi
The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries. -- Nancy Pelosi
When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters. -- Nancy Pelosi
The death of Osama bin Laden marks the most significant development in our fight against al-Qa'ida. I salute President Obama ... in achieving this major accomplishment ... The death of Osama bin Laden is historic. -- Nancy Pelosi
I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.' -- Nancy Pelosi
I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom. -- Nancy Pelosi
If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table. -- Nancy Pelosi
If I had my way, sporting guns would be strictly regulated, the rest would be confiscated -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party. -- Nancy Pelosi
Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise. -- Nancy Pelosi
I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan. -- Nancy Pelosi
My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987. -- Nancy Pelosi
Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented. -- Nancy Pelosi
In this House, we may belong to different parties, but we serve one country. -- Nancy Pelosi
We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel. -- Nancy Pelosi
The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history. -- Nancy Pelosi
Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble. -- Nancy Pelosi
And, cuts in education, scientific research and the rest are harmful, and they are what are affected by the sequestration. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
I Don't Remember Saying that Everybody in the Country Would Have a Lower Premium -- Nancy Pelosi
I was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone. -- Nancy Pelosi
That's why they (the Bush administration) had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true. -- Nancy Pelosi
We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class! -- Nancy Pelosi
After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women. -- Nancy Pelosi
While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.' -- Nancy Pelosi
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history. -- Nancy Pelosi
America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people. -- Nancy Pelosi
Nothing brings more money to the Treasury of the United States, than investment in education of the American people. -- Nancy Pelosi
We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done. -- Nancy Pelosi
With President Obama, we will move America forward. -- Nancy Pelosi
Our view of the law is that it - if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation. -- Nancy Pelosi
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on. -- Nancy Pelosi
Democrats embrace The Affordable Care Act. We're very proud of it. -- Nancy Pelosi
Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House. -- Nancy Pelosi
I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.' -- Nancy Pelosi
I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them. -- Nancy Pelosi
America must be a light to the world, not just a missile. -- Nancy Pelosi
Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for America's workers. -- Nancy Pelosi
The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan. -- Nancy Pelosi
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.' -- Nancy Pelosi
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
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. -- Nancy Pelosi
You cannot cut your way to deficit reduction. -- Nancy Pelosi
Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward. -- Nancy Pelosi
Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance -- Nancy Pelosi