Top 100 Nancy Pelosi Quotes
#1. Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
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#2. I'm Nancy Pelosi, but my grandchildren call me Mimi. For me, politics is an extension of my role as a mother and a grandmother. For the Democratic women of the House, our work is not about the next election, but rather the next generation.
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#3. I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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#4. 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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#5. Older people are not going to evaporate from the face of the Earth for two years. They're going to have medical need and they're going to have to be attended to. And the earlier intervention for it, the less the cost will be and the better the quality of life.
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#6. I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.
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#7. By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.
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#8. The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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#9. You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.
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#10. Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
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#11. On the subject of money and politics and the rest, I have a DARE: Disclose who are these people; Amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United; Reform: let's have public financing of campaigns; and Empower.
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#12. Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program
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#13. With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.
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#14. Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from there. But I do tell you that if the Democrats win, and have substantial majorities, the Congress of the United States will be more bipartisan.
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#15. Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons. There's no question about that.
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#16. Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.
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#17. I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
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#18. My statements are just a statement of fact.
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#19. 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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#20. Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.
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#21. The more women we elect to public office, the more wholesome the whole process will be, whether it's government, politics, whatever.
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#22. To have diversity of opinion in the debate strengthens the outcome and you get a better result.
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#24. 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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#25. It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about timing. And it's about timing as to when make cuts, as well.
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#26. Be yourself, know your power, have confidence in what you have to contribute.
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#27. If women have confidence in themselves, they will have confidence in other women.
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#28. 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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#30. Even if Osama bin Laden is caught tomorrow, it is five years too late. To capture him now I don't think makes us any safer.
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#31. The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting.
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#32. Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
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#33. What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.
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#34. We will energize America by achieving energy independence
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#35. The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader,
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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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#41. I was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone.
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#42. They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
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#43. We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.
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#45. The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.
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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. But I would say, you know, if you're getting married - why are you getting married? Why would you get married? Why would anybody get married?
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#49. Nothing brings more money to the Treasury of the United States, than investment in education of the American people.
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#50. I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.
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#51. I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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#52. Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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#53. And, cuts in education, scientific research and the rest are harmful, and they are what are affected by the sequestration.
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#54. Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.
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#55. When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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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#58. The sequestration is a bad idea, all around. It is something that is out of the question. If you have spending cuts, education of our children, other investments, on the National Institutes of Health, where you are hindering growth, you're no going to reduce the deficit.
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#59. It is clear that the American people are weary of war. However, Assad gassing his own people is an issue of our national security, regional stability and global security.
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#60. I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.
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#61. Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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#62. For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit.
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#63. When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.
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#64. 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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#65. America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.
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#66. There's plenty of opportunity for everyone, so there's no reason to worry about somebody else's success, either saying you couldn't do this so she's better than you, or she's doing it so you can't. No, she's doing it so you can.
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#67. Democrats embrace The Affordable Care Act. We're very proud of it.
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#68. Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
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#69. Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.
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#70. 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.
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#71. Our view of the law is that it - if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation.
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#72. I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA.
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#73. I Don't Remember Saying that Everybody in the Country Would Have a Lower Premium
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#74. Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
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#75. I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.
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#76. What I do care about is that it's an obstacle to other women entering politics, because they'll say, "Why would I do that? I have plenty of other options." And women with plenty of options are just the women that we want to be in politics and government.
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#77. You cannot cut your way to deficit reduction.
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#78. In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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#79. 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.
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#80. The fact is that a lot of the spending increases came during the Bush administration. Two unpaid for wars we got ourselves engaged in. A prescription drug plan that added enormous amounts to our spending, and the tax cuts at the high end that did not create jobs and create revenue coming.
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#81. Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for America's workers.
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#82. 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.
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#83. The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.
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#84. Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs
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#85. I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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#86. I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.
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#87. 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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#88. The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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#89. 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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#90. With President Obama, we will move America forward.
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#91. 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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#92. 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.
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#93. 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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#94. We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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#95. My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.
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#96. If I had my way, sporting guns would be strictly regulated, the rest would be confiscated
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#97. Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.
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#99. I went to all-girls' schools my whole life, so every model of leadership that I saw was a young girl or a woman, and so there was never any hesitation that women could lead. I know what I believe.
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#100. In this House, we may belong to different parties, but we serve one country.
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