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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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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 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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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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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
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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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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.
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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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The American dream is about freedom.
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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.
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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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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.
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Democrats embrace The Affordable Care Act. We're very proud of it.
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Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
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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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They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
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We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.
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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.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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If you don't vote, you don't count.