Nancy Pelosi Quotes

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Nancy Pelosi

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 26, 1940

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

Nancy Pelosi

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.

Nancy Pelosi

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!'

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My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.

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My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.

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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.

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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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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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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.

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Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.

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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.

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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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Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.

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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.

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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.

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

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