Quotes By Nancy Pelosi

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

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

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.