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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.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
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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.'
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The American dream is about freedom.
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Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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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.
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We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.
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Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
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The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
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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.
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They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
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I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
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We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.
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As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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I was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone.
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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.
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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.