Nancy Pelosi Quotes

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Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

Nancy Pelosi
Am I going to have to use my 'Mother of Five Voice' to be heard? [to an inattentive audience while campaigning]

Nancy Pelosi
A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Nancy Pelosi
This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008

Nancy Pelosi
Can we drill your brains? [responding to attendants who interrupted her speech by chanting "Drill here! Drill now!"]

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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.

Nancy Pelosi
By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.

Nancy Pelosi
Why should we put a plan out? Our plan is to stop him. He must be stopped.

Nancy Pelosi
You go through the gate. If the gate's closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we'll pole-vault. If that doesn't work, we'll parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people.

Nancy Pelosi
They had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.

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I didn't know you were Catholic. (to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as he got down on one knee to beg Pelosi to find Democratic support for the bailout bill)-2008

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"Why don't we just leave this room today forgetting the word 'earmark'?"-June 2007

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Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you, his excellency Bertie Ahern (/ei/hern), the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ireland

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Your recent meetings with Chinese dissidents at the White House are to be commended. However, your participation at the opening ceremony of the Olympics will send a signal to the Chinese people and the international community that could be misperceived as your approval, and that of the American people, for the draconian policies of the Chinese government. Therefore, it is essential that you unambiguously speak out for human rights and meet with the families of jailed prisoners of conscience while you are in Beijing.

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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.

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The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.

Nancy Pelosi
I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.

Nancy Pelosi
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.

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The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity... then you are going to be surprised.-1985

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As many of you know, I come from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one—it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means.

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