All Quotes by Nancy Pelosi
“The American dream is about freedom.”
“I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'”
“Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.”
“I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA.”
“I had a friend who was getting married. I said, 'You're getting married - I didn't know about all this!' She said, 'I need health benefits.'”
“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.”
“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.”
“I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.”
“The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.”
“I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.”
“I know about raising money.”
“I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.”
“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.”
“Why should we put a plan out? Our plan is to stop him. He must be stopped.”
“[T]hey 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.”
“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.”
“Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House.”
“A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
“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.”
“I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.”
“This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008”
“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”
“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.”
“[Under the Affordable Care Act] everybody will have lower rates, better quality care, and better access.”
“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.”
“On the final day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when our Constitution was adopted, Americans gathered on the steps of Independence Hall to await the news of the government our Founders had crafted. Our responsibility is to keep it.”
“Our republic endures because of the wisdom of our Constitution, enshrined in three co-equal branches of government, serving as checks and balances on each other. The actions taken to date by the President have seriously violated the Constitution — especially when the President says, "Article II says, I can do whatever I want."”
“Getting back to our Founders — in the darkest days of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote: "The times have found us." The times found them to fight for and establish our democracy. The times have found us today, not to place ourselves in the same category of greatness as our Founders, but to place us in the urgency of protecting and defending our Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. In the words of Ben Franklin, to keep our Republic.”
“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.”
“Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.”