Nancy Pelosi Quotes
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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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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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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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.'
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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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As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
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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.
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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.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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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.
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.
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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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I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
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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 spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.
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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.'
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I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
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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.
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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.
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While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
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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