Nancy Pelosi

Politician

1940-03-26

Quotes by Nancy Pelosi

• 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.

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

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• Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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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 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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• My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.

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

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

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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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• 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.

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• I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA.

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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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• 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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