Quotes By Nancy Pelosi

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.'

The American dream is about freedom.

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