Nancy Pelosi quotes

Nancy Pelosi is an American politician, widely recognized for serving as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. She played a significant role in shaping major legislative initiatives and advancing the Democratic Party's agenda. She remains one of the most influential female leaders in U.S. political history. Here are 83 of her quotes:

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.

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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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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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[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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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I'm never bringing a bill to the floor that doesn't have the votes.

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You've heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don't know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention-it's about diet, not diabetes. It's going to be very, very exciting. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

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Am I going to have to use my ‘Mother of Five Voice' to be heard?" (to an inattentive audience while campaigning)-Quoted in the October 23, 2006 issue of Newsweek.

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I have said to people when they ask me, if this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain would be our commitment to our aid, I don't even call it our aid, our cooperation with Israel. That's fundamental to who we are.

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At the same time, we must lift the debt ceiling and hope that we can have a unanimous Democratic vote and perhaps a bipartisan vote to do so.

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We are visiting you to say thank you for your fight for freedom - that we're on a frontier of freedom, and that your fight is a fight for everyone. And so our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done.

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Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House.

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"Can we drill your brains?"(responding to attendants who interrupted her speech by chanting "Drill here! Drill now!")

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

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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.

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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. (In a letter to President Bush prior to his 2008 trip to Beijing's Summer Olympic Games.

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

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