Quotes By Nancy Pelosi

The American dream is about freedom.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?'.

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

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.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

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.

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.