Top 40 Alexandra C. Pelosi Quotes

My husband is a Dutch television correspondent. He’s not taking any job away from an American. Because I don’t really think there are any Americans that can speak Dutch and explain American politics to a Dutch audience.

There’s a certain attitude that you’ll experience in San Francisco. You could call it hubris.

People hate politicians, it’s really in vogue right now to hate politicians, but we need someone to lead us into the new world economy, we actually need to make decisions and we actually need grownups.

I used to be a kid with a camera, and that used to be kind of endearing to people. Now I’m sort of an old lady with a camera.

Everyone learns how to assimilate through watching television. Everyone thinks America is going to be like Hollywood, and when they get here they keep watching TV to find out how to be.

Because in this business, as you know, you don’t get that many bites at the apple, so I make documentaries for HBO and that’s what I do.

Power isn’t real, and it isn’t earned. If you act like you have it, suddenly you’re leading everyone. Perception is reality.

I believe that if everybody spent their next vacation in a community in America with people they didn’t agree with, they’d probably leave feeling a little more comfortable about the country they live in.

Cable news wants you to believe that America is red versus blue. I would argue America is way more purple than it looks.

Everyone talks about immigrants taking jobs, but there are a lot of jobs that America needs.

I’ve always felt that everything I’ve done has been a conversation, a continuation of the last conversation that I had with the people who’ve watched my films… and that each thing led to the next.

For me, if I was walking down the street and saw a politician, I’d cross the street and walk the other way intentionally, just to not have to talk to them.

I mean, you can forget about George Bush or Jerry Falwell. You can’t forget about a homeless kid.

I was indoctrinated into a Democratic Party cult from a very early age. But I know that’s not the only America and we need to understand the other side.

Towns have to evolve. Towns have to grow up. But not at the expense of the real people.

Cities need to reinvent themselves in order to stay alive.

Government has to produce affordable housing. Government has to produce answers.

But there was money before Citizens United, and there will be money after.

I may live in liberal America, but I know that this is not the only America.

I am not the enemy of tech – I sleep at night with my iPhone on my heart, I’m just as addicted to my devices as every other human walking down the street through a red light in traffic while texting.

As a documentary filmmaker, I couldn’t afford to give my children the lifestyle I had in San Francisco growing up.

San Francisco is the microcosm for what’s happening all over the world.

Income inequality isn’t sexy.

MSNBC is barred from my household. CNN is barred from my household.

I just don’t know that we’re as filled with hate as cable news leads us to believe. It’s hard to hate up close.

I mean, you make a movie with Sarah Palin in it, you get great ratings. That’s easy. I know how to get ratings: get Sarah Palin.

I get that Republicans have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to turn my last name into a curse word.

I don’t have camera crews. I don’t have sound guys. What you see is what you get: just me and my camcorder.

I made three campaign movies. When you make one you are constantly being told what to do by press secretaries. I got tired of that. Plus, I’m older now with children. I can’t be riding along on a campaign bus.

No matter how holy and righteous you are, you’re still gonna have to kiss up to the billionaire for the check to get yourself elected to change the laws. Even if you’re Bernie Sanders.

I’m a happy person! I guess I’m not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.

No one ever won betting against Nancy Pelosi. You’ve got to give her credit, no matter what you think of her.

I hate to be the one to defend George Bush, but you have to be able to disconnect the professional George Bush from the personal George Bush. I know all the anti-war folks think he is a monster, but he is still a very personable, nice person.

I come from a deeply Catholic family. My husband and I were married in a Catholic church; we decided to put our kids into Catholic school.

If you live in Port Arthur, Texas, and you don’t have any food to feed your family for dinner tonight, global warming is not the most important issue; getting a job and feeding your family is.

I never say I make documentaries. I say I make television.

I don’t have any political agenda. I never have and I never will.

There are a lot of lonely people on the planet that have a lot of money in their pocket and no place to go on a Friday night.

It’s a good line to say we’re going to get money out of politics. I don’t know how realistic it is.

There are old people in San Francisco because my parents still live there. The young tech bros don’t see old people or children. The Mission district, where they live and work, they don’t see children or old people. That statement revealed, to me, the blinders that the techies are wearing.