Nancy Pelosi Quotes

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Nancy Pelosi

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 26, 1940

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.'

Nancy Pelosi

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.'

Nancy Pelosi

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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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.

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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.

Nancy Pelosi

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

Nancy Pelosi

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.'

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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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If you don't vote, you don't count.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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