Quotes By Nancy Pelosi

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.

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

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.

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.

With President Obama, we will move America forward.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The American dream is about freedom.

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.

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.'

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

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.

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

We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

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.

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

Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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