Top 100 Pelosi Quotes
#1. Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
Nancy Pelosi
#2. I go back and forth as to whether I think Nancy Pelosi's really this dumb or not. Although, every time I hear her speak I get closer and closer to concluding that she is this dumb.
Rush Limbaugh
#3. My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and the people decide whether to support them.
Christine Pelosi
#4. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#5. I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
Nancy Pelosi
#6. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#7. A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy.
Christine Pelosi
#8. Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.
Nancy Pelosi
#9. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#10. I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.
Nancy Pelosi
#11. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#12. Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that is what's left after you drain the swamp: snakes everywhere.
Jay Leno
#13. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#14. I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone.
Christine Pelosi
#15. Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
Nancy Pelosi
#16. The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
Nancy Pelosi
#17. 'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.
Christine Pelosi
#18. For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.
Christine Pelosi
#19. It is as the former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi once observed: Pass it to find out what is in it. That is how Washington does business. Let
Ted Cruz
#20. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#21. We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory ... of how we are taking responsibility.
Nancy Pelosi
#22. If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.
Nancy Pelosi
#25. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#26. An undeniable truth is that while Obama and Pelosi and George Soros and whoever else tell you and me to get off oil, they won't - they're the elites. They're smarter, they're running the world, and they have to be able to get to where they have to go.
Rush Limbaugh
#27. On GOP Tax Cuts: They'll take food out of the mouths of children to give tax cuts to the wealthiest.
Nancy Pelosi
#28. A West Virginia 10 is a California 4. Or at least that's what legend tells us: The Legend of Dr. Feelgood. Plastic surgery has a permanent home here, which is why Nancy Pelosi loves our Botoxed beaches. Beverly Hills looks like a moving Madame Tussauds.
Ben Shapiro
#29. The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.
Christine Pelosi
#30. When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.
Christine Pelosi
#31. The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.
Christine Pelosi
#32. Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
Nancy Pelosi
#33. This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008
Nancy Pelosi
#34. We've got Nancy Pelosi. She never shuts up. It's just occasionally we have to hood her like a falcon so we can get some sleep.
Dennis Miller
#35. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#36. If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
Camille Paglia
#37. President Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi represent what mainstream America is rejecting about Washington, D.C. And that is this out of touch with the people.
Sharron Angle
#38. Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program
Nancy Pelosi
#39. I think it's interesting that people like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi said that the Tea Party was dead and they weren't influential and yet they're still talking about the Tea Party.
Katie Pavlich
#41. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#42. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#43. With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.
Christine Pelosi
#44. Everybody will have lower rates, better quality, and better access.
Nancy Pelosi
#45. Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.
Marsha Blackburn
#46. Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons. There's no question about that.
Nancy Pelosi
#47. Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.
Nancy Pelosi
#48. No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy - Democrat, Republican or otherwise.
Christine Pelosi
#49. Go to find common ground; where you can't, you stand your ground.
Nancy Pelosi
#50. I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.
Joe Donnelly
#51. As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
Nancy Pelosi
#52. The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosi's spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure.
Geoff Davis
#53. I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the American public that women can be strong, they can be tough, they can be effective, and they can lead this country as political leaders.
Ellen Malcolm
#54. I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
Nancy Pelosi
#55. My statements are just a statement of fact.
Nancy Pelosi
#56. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#57. Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's 2006 attacks on Michael J. Fox for campaigning about stem cell research.
Christine Pelosi
#58. Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.
Nancy Pelosi
#59. Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.
Christine Pelosi
#60. Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.
Christine Pelosi
#61. When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.
Christine Pelosi
#62. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
Nancy Pelosi
#63. I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.
Nancy Pelosi
#64. The more women we elect to public office, the more wholesome the whole process will be, whether it's government, politics, whatever.
Nancy Pelosi
#65. To have diversity of opinion in the debate strengthens the outcome and you get a better result.
Nancy Pelosi
#66. Since joining the U.S. House of Representatives in November of 2006, I have strongly supported Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I have the utmost respect for her, and I believe the Democrats were able to accomplish a great deal under her leadership.
Albio Sires
#67. Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.
Christine Pelosi
#68. As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
Nancy Pelosi
#69. House Speaker Pelosi worried about the opposition, the tone of it, perhaps leading to violence as it did in the 70s. Theres more recent examples of anti-government violence - occurring even in the mid-90s. Do you worry about that?
David Gregory
#70. Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age who are Catholic use contraception. Ok, so in practice the church has not enforced this and now they want the federal government and private insurance to enforce it. It just isn't consistent to me.
Nancy Pelosi
#71. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#72. You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.
Christine Pelosi
#74. If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'
Peter T. King
#75. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#76. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#77. Be yourself, know your power, have confidence in what you have to contribute.
Nancy Pelosi
#78. If women have confidence in themselves, they will have confidence in other women.
Nancy Pelosi
#79. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#80. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#81. We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone.
Christine Pelosi
#83. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#84. The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting.
Nancy Pelosi
#85. Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'
Christine Pelosi
#86. If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.
Christine Pelosi
#87. President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door.
Mitt Romney
#88. Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
Nancy Pelosi
#89. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#90. I read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what?
Nancy Pelosi
#91. We will energize America by achieving energy independence
Nancy Pelosi
#92. 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,
Nancy Pelosi
#94. 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.'
Nancy Pelosi
#95. Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.
Christine Pelosi
#96. Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
Nancy Pelosi
#97. I am running because I love my country and Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are ruining it. It is time to take our country back and I am asking you to join me in this fight.
Scott Ashjian
#98. 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.
Nancy Pelosi
#99. To those who say it would be too difficult to repeal and replace Obamacare, I say it's a two step process. We repeal the Pelosi Congress in 2010 and replace the Obama Administration in 2012.
Mike Pence
#100. My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
Nancy Pelosi
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