Words matter. These are the best Nancy Pelosi Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have newspapers coming to me and saying, ‘Can we get in on the TARP?’.
The name ‘Republican’ in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.
As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
If you make – not have – $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I’m willing to put that on the table.
Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
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.
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.
America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.
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.’
When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We’re subsidizing an economy. We’re not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day’s work. When we’re not rewarding work actively, there’s something wrong with the system.
Let’s just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
Jobs are central to the American dream – and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.
I know about raising money.
Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, ‘My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.’
Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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.
I call Washington ‘the city of the perishable.’
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.
A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it’s going to work. You can’t always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you’re needed most.
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don’t.
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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.’
We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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.
I read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what?
Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA.
Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that’s been very male-oriented.
I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
I never dread going back to Congress.
The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory… of how we are taking responsibility.
Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby’s cast when he hurt his hand.
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.
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.
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.
I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
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.
Nothing surprises me. One thing I don’t ever have in my world is surprise.
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It’s made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
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.
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.’
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.
Don’t underestimate your opponent, but don’t overestimate them, either.
