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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.

  • Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

  • Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

  • 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.

  • They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.

  • 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.

  • The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

  • I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'

  • While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'

  • 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.

  • Democrats embrace The Affordable Care Act. We're very proud of it.

  • 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.

  • Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

  • We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

  • In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  • 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.'

  • I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

  • 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.

  • Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The American dream is about freedom.

  • After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

  • I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.

  • 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.'

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

  • I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

  • The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.

  • 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.

  • Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

  • Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

  • Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.

  • Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

  • Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

  • 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.

  • I was raised in an Italian catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. Our faith is very important to us, our patriotism, love of faith, love of family, love of country. I took pride in our Italian American heritage and to be the first woman speaker of the House and the first Italian American speaker of the House, it's quite thrilling for me.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.

  • That is why, as one who values the U.S. - Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister's speech - saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations, and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation.

  • If women have confidence in themselves, they will have confidence in other women.

  • Our view of the law is that it - if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation.

  • Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

  • We will energize America by achieving energy independence

  • I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.

  • But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

  • For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit.

  • Hamas is a humanitarian organization.

  • After 100 years of trying, finally we passed health care for all Americans as a right for all - not just a privilege for a few. It honored the vows of our Founders: Of life, a healthier life; liberty; the freedom to pursue our own happinesses. ... We knew that ... this bill was ironclad constitutionally.

  • 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.

  • Nothing brings more money to the Treasury of the United States, than investment in education of the American people.

  • 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.

  • Anybody who's ever dealt with me knows not to mess with me.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • I Don't Remember Saying that Everybody in the Country Would Have a Lower Premium

  • We need major investments for rebuilding the infrastructure of America in a very forward-looking way that reduces our dependence on foreign oil. It is a commitment to innovation, to science, to keep America number one and competitive and grow our manufacturing base.

  • I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

  • Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.

  • Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs

  • Go to find common ground; where you can't, you stand your ground.

  • Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.

  • Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program

  • I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

  • Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.

  • I was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone.

  • 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.

  • Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today.

  • 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.

  • As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.

  • America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

  • 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.

  • 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.'

  • The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.

  • I read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what?

  • The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

  • With President Obama, we will move America forward.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • [Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing the dream, by making the minimum wage a living wage, by having not just family and medical leave, but paid sick leave for our workers, [and] by having quality, affordable child care so that our families, the power of women can be unleashed in our economy and in our society.

  • And, cuts in education, scientific research and the rest are harmful, and they are what are affected by the sequestration.

  • As many of you know, I came from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one - it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means.

  • As we disagree with each other, we learn more about each other, and more and more people are coming together.

  • As we move forward to debate our economic and fiscal challenges in the weeks and months ahead, one thing is clear: Our economic agenda, choices and decisions, will be viewed through the perspective and the eyes of our nation's women and their needs and those of their families.

  • Be yourself, know your power, have confidence in what you have to contribute.

  • Be yourself. Hillary Clinton, you have a great vision for our country. You know the policy, you have good judgment that springs from that. You're a strategic thinker, and you have a connection with the American people that springs from a lifetime of service and leadership to them, to America's working families. So, just go talk about that. Forget the script, forget everything else. Just be Hillary Clinton. Be yourself.

  • 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.

  • Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

  • Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I ever met anybody who liked his or her plan, but that was not my experience, that was not my experience. And it was not my experience as a mother of five, who occasionally has a bad back and the rest of that. I was considered a poor risk, even though I had some resources and thought I was quite strong for having five children. But the insurance company didn't see it that way.

  • Do not ever say to anybody it's time for us to have a woman in the leadership, because that's the least important selling point.

  • Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

  • 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.

  • Elections are about the future.

  • 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.

  • Everybody will have lower rates, better quality, and better access.

  • Everything within a half-a-minute or a half-an-inch is gold, silver, bronze or nothing.

  • For three decades, Senator Arlen Specter served the people of Pennsylvania with independence, toughness, determination and an unflinching devotion to the best interests of his constituents and our country. From the committee room to the Senate chamber, Senator Specter offered a voice of reason and passion in every debate - always willing to reach across the aisle and work across party lines to get the job done, regardless of political gamesmanship or gain.

  • Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.

  • Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

  • Hillary Clinton has a vision, she has knowledge and judgment. She is a strategic thinker, based on her experience and her connection.

  • Hillary Clinton is an experienced public figure.

  • Hillary Clinton is probably one of the best prepared people to walk into the Oval Office certainly in a generation, with all the love and respect and admiration that I have for President Obama, and he's been a great president, going in he was nowhere nearly as prepared as Hillary Clinton.

  • Hillary Clinton knows, as I did know, as my women members know - that a woman being elected to a position, it's not about what it means to that woman. It's not about what it means to Hillary to be the first president. It's about what it means to all of the women in America, that a woman has broken the ultimate marble ceiling and that anything is possible for them and their daughters - and their sons. It's about sons, too.

  • Hillary Clinton needs no advice from anyone.

  • Hillary Clinton should be president not because she's a woman but because she's the best for the job. I don't think that any woman should be asked to vote for someone because she's a woman, and that - because the candidate is a woman.

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