Nancy Pelosi Quotes
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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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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When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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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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Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
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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.
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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.
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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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I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
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As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
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I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
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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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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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I know about raising money.
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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.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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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.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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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.
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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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The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.
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I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'