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You Cannot Be A Party In Stagnation. You Have To Have The Constant Reinvigoration Of Fresher Ideas And The Debate In Terms Of Role Of Government And The Rest Is As Ancient As - As Old As America.

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You Cannot Be A Party In Stagnation. You Have To Have The Constant Reinvigoration Of Fresher Ideas And The Debate In Terms Of Role Of Government And The Rest Is As Ancient As - As Old As America.

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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.

To Have Diversity Of Opinion In The Debate Strengthens The Outcome And You Get A Better Result.

In This House, We May Belong To Different Parties, But We Serve One Country.

[the Republicans] Have Come Up With Nothing. They Say Repeal And Replace. That Has Alliteration. But That's All It Has Going For It Because They Don't Have A Replacement. What They Have Put Forth And Outlined Will Cost More To Consumers. It Will Cover Fewer People. It Will Give Tax Breaks To The Wealthiest People.

When President [barack] Obama Was Sworn In On The Steps Of Capitol, He Asked For Swift, Bold Action Now For Jobs And Education For The 21st Century, A List, An Agenda. One Week And One Day From That Swearing In, The House Passed The Arra, The American Recovery And Reinvestment Act.

But We Have To Pass The Bill So You Can Find Out What Is In It, Away From The Fog Of The Controversy.

I Was Raised In An Italian Catholic Family In Baltimore, Maryland. Our Faith Is Very Important To Us, Our Patriotism, Love Of Faith, Love Of Family, Love Of Country. I Took Pride In Our Italian American Heritage And To Be The First Woman Speaker Of The House And The First Italian American Speaker Of The House, It's Quite Thrilling For Me.

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.

President Obama Came Up With Tremendous Ideas, But He Was Blocked By The Republicans.

Elections Are About The Future.

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.

I Don't Reject The Concept Of Preemptive War. I'm A Mother Of Five. I Have Five Grandchildren. And I Always Say: Think Of A Lioness. Think Of A Mother Bear. You Come Anywhere Near Our Cubs, You're Dead. And So, In Terms Of Any Threat To Our Country, People Have To Know We'll Be There To Preemptively Strike. But What The President [bush] Did Was, On The Basis Of No Real Intelligence For An Imminent Threat To Our Country, Chose To Go Into A War For Reasons That Are Still Unknown To Us.

I Love Chocolate. I Love Chocolate Ice Cream. I Love Chocolate Candy. The Darker The Better.

Chocolate Ice Cream

Love Chocolates

We Can All Do Better. America Is An Entrepreneurial Society. We Had Entrepreneurs Who Started Our Country. And They Want Us To Think In Fresh, New, Different Ways All Of The Time.

It Isn't As Much You A Spending Problem As A Priorities, And That Is What The Budget Is, Setting Priorities. It's About Timing. And It's About Timing As To When Make Cuts, As Well.

Democrats Believe We Must Create Jobs, Not Protect The Special Interests; Build The Economy From The Middle Out, Not The Top Down.

My Favourite Dish Is My Chocolate Mousse. It's Like Heaven On Earth. It's The Best Chocolate Mousse That You Could Ever Imagine. You Have To Start With The Highest-quality Chocolate.

Women Are Leaders Everywhere You Look - From The Ceo Who Runs A Fortune 500 Company To The Housewife Who Raises Her Children And Heads Her Household. Our Country Was Built By Strong Women And We Will Continue To Break Down Walls And Defy Stereotypes.

Democrats Believe In Reigniting The American Dream By Removing Barriers To Success And Building Ladders Of Opportunity For All, So Everyone Can Succeed.

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.

I Have Worn My White And Purple, Colors Of The Suffragettes, In Honor Of The Fact That We Have Our First Woman President, Soon To Be, Hillary Clinton, Elected President Of The United States.

Think Of An Economy Where People Could Be An Artist Or A Photographer Or, Eh, A Writer Without Worrying About Keeping Their Day Job In Order To Have Health Insurance, Or That People Could Start A Business And Be Entrepreneurial And Take Risk But Not Be Job-locked Because A Child Has Asthma Or Someone In The Family Is Bipolar. You Name It. Any Condition Is Job-blocking.

I Believe That Women Are Rising To The Occasion To Tackle Many Challenges. Whether It's Issues That Relate To Prosperity, The Defense Of Country, The Economy Of Our Country; Issues That Have Traditionally Been Considered Women's Issues Like Health And Education And The Environment Are Now Being Defined In Terms Of Our National Strength. So I Think Women Have Made A Big Difference In Putting Things In Perspective.

Imagine In What The President [donald Trump] Wants To Do, The 400 Wealthiest Families In America Will Get A Tax Break Of $7 Million A Year.

You Cannot Be A Party In Stagnation. You Have To Have The Constant Reinvigoration Of Fresher Ideas And The Debate In Terms Of Role Of Government And The Rest Is As Ancient As - As Old As America.

People Say To Me All The Time, "oh, You Do Such A Good Job Unifying The House Democrats." I Say, "i Don't. Our Values Unify Us. We Are Unified With Our Commitment To America's Working Families About Job Creation, About Budget Policies That Invest In The Future, Good-paying Jobs."

My Daughter Alexandra Once Told Me, "mother, You're A Pioneer. Now, Hardly Anybody Cooks, But You Were One Of The First To Stop." After 20 Years Of Cooking, I Started To Appreciate The Value Of Other People's Work. So I Would, Say, Go Get A Duck In Chinatown. I Always Had The Salad And Set The Table, But I Didn't Have To Clean The Pots.

I Think Bernie Sanders Understands Better Than Anyone The Chasm That Exists Between A Democratic - The Democrats And The Republicans When It Comes To Being There For America's Working Families, And That's What He's About, And That's What We're About As Democrats.

I Think Many Times Young Women Do Not Give Sufficient Weight To The Unique Contribution That They Can Bring To Any Discussion Or Any Cause. And They Have Within Them Something Very Special, And They Should Count All Of Their Experiences As A Plus.

[donald Trump] Has Nothing To Show For It But Fear In Every Way. To People Who Are Sick, Fear, To People Who Are Immigrants, Fear, To People Who Are Concerned About The Greed On Wall Street Taking Us Back To Where We Were.

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 Do Trust That The President Is Sincere In Understanding That The Public Supports - That Overwhelmingly The Public Supports - Not Sending These Young People Back. It Was Interpreted By Some That We Had A Deal On The Deal. But That Wasn't On The Package. We Had An Agreement To Move Forward, In Our View, With The Dream Act As A Basis For How We Protect The Dreamers And For Further Discussions On What Provisions Relating To The Border Might Be In An Accompanying Bill Or Whatever As We Go Forward. So I Trust The President In That Regard.

The Situation In Iraq And The Reckless Economic Policies In The United States Speak To One Issue For Me, And That Is The Competence Of Our Leader.

For Our Daughters And Our Granddaughters Now, The Sky Is The Limit.

That Is Why, As One Who Values The U.s.-israel Relationship, And Loves Israel, I Was Near Tears Throughout The Prime Minister’s Speech — Saddened By The Insult To The Intelligence Of The United States As Part Of The P5 +1 Nations, And Saddened By The Condescension Toward Our Knowledge Of The Threat Posed By Iran And Our Broader Commitment To Preventing Nuclear Proliferation.

I Want Women To Have All The Opportunities That They Aspire To.

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.

I Think A Primary Always Makes The Other Candidate A Better Candidate Because You're Battle-tested And You Have To Think In Ways That Other People Are Thinking In Addition To Your Own Vision, How To Incorporate Some Fresher, Newer Thinking Into All Of That.

I Believe In Natural Gas As A Clean, Cheap Alternative To Fossil Fuels.

I Must Have Good Genes From My Parents Because I Feel No Slowdown Of Energy, Enthusiasm Or Even Memory.

So When [donald Trump] Makes His Address On The 40 Days That He Has Been President, He Has Nothing To Show For It But Fear In Every Way.

Hillary Clinton Should Be President Not Because She's A Woman But Because She's The Best For The Job. I Don't Think That Any Woman Should Be Asked To Vote For Someone Because She's A Woman, And That - Because The Candidate Is A Woman.

I Know My Debt Of Gratitude To The Women Who Went Before, I Know My Responsibility To Young Women Coming Forward.

When Someone Challenges You, Your Supporters Turn Out.

Hillary Clinton Has A Vision, She Has Knowledge And Judgment. She Is A Strategic Thinker, Based On Her Experience And Her Connection.

Having Five Children In Six Years Is The Best Training In The World For Speaker Of The House.

Take Inventory Of What You Have To Offer. Place A Value On It. Respect It - Because If You Don't Respect What You Have To Offer It's Hard For Other People To.

The Democrats Have Been There For Working People In Our Country. That's Who We Are, Trickle-down Vs. Middle-class Economics. That's The Major Difference Between The Parties.

The President Of The United States, The Most Famous Person In The World, Maybe In The Whole Galaxy - In A Long Time - He Had To Spend Like A Billion Dollars To Set The Record Straight.

I Come Back To The Science That Is In It To Reduce Our Dependence On Foreign Oil And Climate Change. It's About Science, Science, Science And Science, Innovation, As We Rebuild America, Create Jobs, Invest In Our People And Turn This Economy Around.

Hillary Clinton Is An Experienced Public Figure.

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.

There's Plenty Of Opportunity For Everyone, So There's No Reason To Worry About Somebody Else's Success, Either Saying You Couldn't Do This So She's Better Than You, Or She's Doing It So You Can't. No, She's Doing It So You Can.

On Gop Tax Cuts: They'll Take Food Out Of The Mouths Of Children To Give Tax Cuts To The Wealthiest.

Fashion And All That It Implies - Hair, Makeup - Is An Art Form. If You Look Organized And Well Presented, People Think That You're Organized In Your Mind And You Take Pride In Yourself. And Besides, It's Fun. Isn't It Fun?

What Is Key For Winning The Election Is To Be Able To Put Forth A Vision For Our Future And How This Election Affects People's Lives.

Since I Was In My 20s, I've Been Giving My Face 30 Hot Splashes In The Morning And At Night, And I Keep Thinking, If It's 25, Oh My Gosh, I'm Going To Fall Apart.

Of Course The Issue Of Ending War, And Creating Prosperity; They're Overarching Issues All The Time. But Right Now, The Challenge To This Generation I Believe Is The Climate Crisis. It's A National Security Issue, It's A Health Issue In Terms Of Clean Air, It's A Competitiveness Issue In Terms Of Innovation And It's A Moral Issue To Preserve The Planet For The Next Generation.

We Haven't Really Gotten The Credit For What We Have Done.

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 Terms Of Winning The Election, It's All About Turnout And How We Connect With The Voter As To What It Means In Their Lives To Turn Out To Vote, To Win The House, The Senate, Statehouses, State Governorships And The Rest.

I Believe That The President's (bush) Leadership In The Actions Taken In Iraq Demonstrate An Incompetence In Terms Of Knowledge, Judgment And Experience In Making The Decisions That Would Have Been Necessary To Truly Accomplish The Mission Without The Deaths To Our Troops And The Cost To Our Taxpayers.

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.'

Democratic Priorities Remain Clear: To Provide A Tax Cut For Working Families, To Promote Policies That Produce Jobs And Economic Growth, And To Assist Millions Of Our Fellow Americans Who Have Lost Their Jobs Through No Fault Of Their Own.

Anybody Who's Ever Dealt With Me Knows Not To Mess With Me.

Each Generation Is Responsible To Make The Future Of The Next.

We Had Early On Women Having The Right To Vote, Then Women In The Workforce During Wwii, Just Going Back In History, And Then We Had The Higher Education Of Women, And Then Women More Fully Participating In The Economy And In Business, The Professions, Education, You Name The Subject... But The Missing Link Has Always Been: Is There Quality, Affordable Healthcare For All Women, Regardless Of What Their Family Situation Might Be?

Nothing Brings More Money To The Treasury Of The United States, Than Investment In Education Of The American People.

[martin Luther King, Jr.] Would Want Us To Celebrate Him, His Birth, And His Legacy By Acting Upon His Agenda, By Realizing The Dream, By Making The Minimum Wage A Living Wage, By Having Not Just Family And Medical Leave, But Paid Sick Leave For Our Workers, [and] By Having Quality, Affordable Child Care So That Our Families, The Power Of Women Can Be Unleashed In Our Economy And In Our Society.

Be Yourself, Know Your Power, Have Confidence In What You Have To Contribute.

Have Confidence

Yes, [i Am Accusing The Cia Of] Misleading The Congress Of The United States, Misleading The Congress Of The United States. I Am.

The Good News Is That We Really Do Think That ... On The Immigration Issue, That We Will, Before Summer, Have Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

If Women Have Confidence In Themselves, They Will Have Confidence In Other Women.

Have Confidence

Confidence In Others

Power Is Not Anything That's Given Away. Power Is Something You Have To Compete For.

Lincoln Said, Public Sentiment Is Everything. We Have To Listen To The People And Come Together As We Prioritize Our Agenda And Go Forward.

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.

Everything Within A Half-a-minute Or A Half-an-inch Is Gold, Silver, Bronze Or Nothing.

We Are Not Going Back To The Failed Policies Of The Past. We Are Fighting For The Middle Class!

The Sequestration Is A Bad Idea, All Around. It Is Something That Is Out Of The Question. If You Have Spending Cuts, Education Of Our Children, Other Investments, On The National Institutes Of Health, Where You Are Hindering Growth, You're No Going To Reduce The Deficit.

What I Do Care About Is That It's An Obstacle To Other Women Entering Politics, Because They'll Say, "why Would I Do That? I Have Plenty Of Other Options." And Women With Plenty Of Options Are Just The Women That We Want To Be In Politics And Government.

That's Why They (the Bush Administration) 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.

Mass Destruction

It Is Clear That The American People Are Weary Of War. However, Assad Gassing His Own People Is An Issue Of Our National Security, Regional Stability And Global Security.

Every Month That We Do Not Have An Economic Recovery Package 500 Million Americans Lose Their Jobs.

Even If Osama Bin Laden Is Caught Tomorrow, It Is Five Years Too Late. To Capture Him Now I Don't Think Makes Us Any Safer.

Our View Of The Law Is That It - If Somebody Is Here Without Sufficient Documentation, That Is Not Reason For Deportation.

[the Republicans] Have Come Up With Nothing. They Say Repeal And Replace. That Has Alliteration.

I Do Think That Campaigns Are About Electing Somebody, But They're Also About A Discussion Of The Future Of Our Country.

Jobs Are Central To The American Dream - And President Obama Has Focused On Jobs From Day One.

I Have Deep Emotions About The American People. If I Were To Cry For Anything, I Would Cry For Them And The Policies That They're About To Face.

I Promise To Do Everything In My Power To Achieve Energy Independence And To Do So Within Ten Years And To Stop Global Warming, Which Says To The American People That We Are About The Future, About Addressing How We Create Jobs, How We Care For Our Children, How We Grow Our Economy, And How We Preserve Our Planet.

I Want A Trade That Is Not Trickle-down Trade, But Trade That Recognizes We're In A Global Economy.

I Don’t Remember Saying That Everybody In The Country Would Have A Lower Premium.

If Somebody's Hacking You, You Don't Want Them To Know That You Know.

No Money Changed Hands, Of Course.

The Impact Of Climate Change Is A Tremendous Risk To The Security And Well-being Of Our Countries.

My Statements Are Just A Statement Of Fact.

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.

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 In Congress Stand By Israel. In Congress, We Speak With One Voice On The Subject Of Israel.

You Cannot Cut Your Way To Deficit Reduction.

In Our Recovery Package We Put New Standards Of Accountability And Transparency, Which We Hope Will Now Apply.

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.

I Went To All-girls' Schools My Whole Life, So Every Model Of Leadership That I Saw Was A Young Girl Or A Woman, And So There Was Never Any Hesitation That Women Could Lead. I Know What I Believe.

[barack Obama] Had Already Signed Lilly Ledbetter, Signed Schip, The Children's Health Insurance Program. By The Time He Had His First Address To The Joint Session, That Is As It Is Called, The First Speech, He Could Say, This Is What I Asked For, This Is What We Have Done In The First Four Weeks.

A Successful Marriage Is A Decision. You Decide Whether It's Going To Work, And Then You Turn Around And You've Been Married 45 Years.

On February 17th, Four Weeks From [barack Obama's] Inauguration, He Signed A Bill Which Saved Or Created 4 Million Jobs.

I Believe That Hillary Clinton Is One Of The Best Prepared People In Our History To Enter The Oval Office, With Her Vision, Her Knowledge, Her Experience, Her Strategic Thinking, Her Connection To The American People.

I Will Not Be Making Appointments To A Committee That Is Not Bipartisan.

Ninety-eight Percent Of Women In Childbearing Age Who Are Catholic Use Contraception. Ok, So In Practice The Church Has Not Enforced This And Now They Want The Federal Government And Private Insurance To Enforce It. It Just Isn't Consistent To Me.

Older People Are Not Going To Evaporate From The Face Of The Earth For Two Years. They're Going To Have Medical Need And They're Going To Have To Be Attended To. And The Earlier Intervention For It, The Less The Cost Will Be And The Better The Quality Of Life.

The Issue Of Childcare Is The Missing Link In The Full Contribution Of Women To Our Society And To Our Economy.

Hamas Is A Humanitarian Organization.

I Have Always Said, In My Own Rise In The Leadership, Please Don't Ever Ask Anybody To Vote For Me Because I'm A Woman.

In A Couple Of Days, It Will Be 40 Days, 40 Hours, 40 Years In The Desert - 40 Is Fraught With Meaning And Symbolism.

We Have A Responsibility To Control Our Borders. Building A Wall Is Not An Answer, Not Here In America Or Any Place.

And, Cuts In Education, Scientific Research And The Rest Are Harmful, And They Are What Are Affected By The Sequestration.

Does Trumpcare Protect Seniors And Families? Does Trumpcare - Is Trumpcare Good For Our Veterans? Is There Any Caring In Trumpcare At All?

I Think That People Have Great Anger Over What Happened In 2008 In Terms Of The Economy.

Republicans Always Are Gearing Whatever They Do To Benefit The High End.

I Would Do Almost Anything Tina Fey Asks Me To Do.

There Are The Fundamental Core Values Of The Democratic Party, Which Is To Work To Grow The Economy, To Create Jobs, To Encourage Small Business, To Encourage Ownership, To Expand Access To Quality Health Care, To Enhance Opportunity By Making Higher Education More Affordable To American's Young People, To Have Our Children Live In Safe Neighborhoods, Drug-free, Crime-free, And A Safe And Clean Environment, First And Foremost To Provide For The National Defense, To Protect And Defend The American People, And To Have Accountability For Our Budget And For Our Spending.

Do Not Ever Say To Anybody It's Time For Us To Have A Woman In The Leadership, Because That's The Least Important Selling Point.

Saddam Hussein Certainly Has Chemical And Biological Weapons. There's No Question About That.

This President Goes Into Office With More Expectations Than Any President I Can Ever Remember In My Lifetime.-2008

I Have Newspapers Coming To Me And Saying, 'can We Get In On The Tarp?'.

You Have To Believe In Who You Are And What Difference You Can Make. You Have To Care About The Urgency And The Difference It Will Make To Your Community, And You Have To, Again, Have Confidence In The Contribution That You Can Make. You Believe, You Care, You Have Confidence In The Difference That You Can Make. And That's Not To Be Egotistical, It's Just To Be Confident.

I Think There's No Question Comey Abused Power.

Time Is Our Most Finite Commodity, Therefore Our Most Valuable, And I Respect Other Peoples' Time.

Respecting Others

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.

I Come To This Debate, Mr. Speaker, As One At The End Of 10 Years In Office On The Permanent Select Committee On Intelligence, Where Stopping The Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction Was One Of My Top Priorities. I Applaud The President On Focusing On This Issue And On Taking The Lead To Disarm Saddam Hussein... Others Have Talked About This Threat That Is Posed By Saddam Hussein. Yes, He Has Chemical Weapons, He Has Biological Weapons, He Is Trying To Get Nuclear Weapons.

Mass Destruction

What Has The [donald] Trump Administration Done From Their Inaugural Address, Where They Talked About Decay And Carnage? They've Done Nothing Except Put Wall Street First, Make America Sick Again, Instill Fear In Our Immigrant Population In Our Country, And Make Sure That Russia Maintains Its Grip, Its Grip On Our Foreign Policy.

Civilization As We Know It Today Would Be In Jeopardy If The Republicans Win The Senate.

We Have Our Differences Since The Beginning Of America. It's A Legitimate Difference. What Is The Role Of Government, Et Cetera, Federal, State, Local?

Pass The Bill To Find Out What's In It

I'm A Mother Of Five, And Raising Five Babies, Little Children, You Have To Make Use Of Time In A Very Effective Way. So, I Think That May Have Trained Me.

But I Would Say, You Know, If You're Getting Married - Why Are You Getting Married? Why Would You Get Married? Why Would Anybody Get Married?

You Know, God Bless Him, Bless His Heart, President Of The United States, A Total Failure, Losing All Credibility With The American People On The Economy, On The War, On Energy, You Name The Subject.

If You're Talking About Competing With Countries In The Industrialized, Developed World, They Don't Have Healthcare Costs. Their Societies Have That As A Priority. Here In America, We Won't Have The Same Kind Of Healthcare Availability Because It's Still A Private Sector Initiative. But That's O.k. Because It's Facilitated To Be Made More Affordable In A Public Way.

When Americans Are Worried About Losing Their Jobs, Their Savings, Their Homes And Their Chance At The American Dream, Congress And The President Must Work Together To Lift Our Economy And Restore Hope. That Is The Course The New Direction Congress Will Continue In The Days And Weeks Ahead.

My Evaluation Of President George W. Bush Is Nothing Personal. He's A Lovely Person. Sadly, I Believe He Will Be Remembered For Taking Us Into War Unnecessarily At The Cost Of Thousands Of American Lives, Injuries To Tens Of Thousands Of Our Troops, And Trillions Of Dollars To Our Economy - Enormous Costs To Our Reputation, And Undermining The Capability Of Our Military To Protect Us. That, I Think, Will Be The Overwhelming Issue For Which His Presidency Will Be Remembered: Extensive Damage To Our Country.

President Obama And The Congressional Democrats Have Certainly Been Responsive.

President Obama

The Republicans Have Been Baying At The Moon For Seven Years, In March It Was Seven Years Since The President Signed The Bill. They've Been Baying At The Moon That They Had A Better Idea.

I Didn't Know You Were Catholic.

Elect Us, Hold Us Accountable, And Make A Judgment And Then Go From There. But I Do Tell You That If The Democrats Win, And Have Substantial Majorities, The Congress Of The United States Will Be More Bipartisan.

America Must Be A Light To The World, Not Just A Missile.

I'm Always Touched When I Go To Events And Stuff, To Meet Fathers Who Come Up To Me And Thank Me And Say, "because Of You My Young Daughter Knows That She Can Do Anything She Sets Out To Do." And The Way Young Girls Are Raised Now, I Don't Think There's Any Doubt That They Know They Can Do Anything. And If What Goes By The By Is That They Don't Feel They Have To Be In Solidarity With All Other Women, That's O.k. As Long As They Know That That Strength Has Been There In The Past And Can Be There In The Future For Them.

Let's Respect The Dignity Of Women To Make Their Own Decisions About The Size And Timing Of Their Families.

Who's Taking Care Of The Children Is An Important Question For All Of Us.

Hillary Clinton Knows, As I Did Know, As My Women Members Know - That A Woman Being Elected To A Position, It's Not About What It Means To That Woman. It's Not About What It Means To Hillary To Be The First President. It's About What It Means To All Of The Women In America, That A Woman Has Broken The Ultimate Marble Ceiling And That Anything Is Possible For Them And Their Daughters - And Their Sons. It's About Sons, Too.

I Do Think That Our Democracy Is So Great, We Can Withstand Even A Candidacy Of Donald Trump. And When We Emerge From This, It Has To Be Respecting The Position Of Those Who Supported Him, Addressing The Anger And Anxiety That They Have, And, Again, Bringing The Country Together, Which Was Always The Purpose Of Our Founders, A More Perfect Union.

I'm Nancy Pelosi, But My Grandchildren Call Me Mimi. For Me, Politics Is An Extension Of My Role As A Mother And A Grandmother. For The Democratic Women Of The House, Our Work Is Not About The Next Election, But Rather The Next Generation.

The Fact Is That A Lot Of The Spending Increases Came During The Bush Administration. Two Unpaid For Wars We Got Ourselves Engaged In. A Prescription Drug Plan That Added Enormous Amounts To Our Spending, And The Tax Cuts At The High End That Did Not Create Jobs And Create Revenue Coming.

When The Kyoto Protocol Enters Into The Force Tomorrow, The World Will Take A Significant And Long-awaited First Step Towards Stemming Global Warming. Instead Of Stepping Forward As The World Leader On Climate Change, However, The Bush Administration Is Clinging To The Role Of World Obstructionist.

I Believe That Nothing Has Been More Wholesome For America, For Our Government, For Our Politics, Than The Increased Participation Of Women.

Being The First Woman Speaker And Breaking The Marble Ceiling Is Pretty Important. Now It's Time To Move On.

Be Yourself. Hillary Clinton, You Have A Great Vision For Our Country. You Know The Policy, You Have Good Judgment That Springs From That. You're A Strategic Thinker, And You Have A Connection With The American People That Springs From A Lifetime Of Service And Leadership To Them, To America's Working Families. So, Just Go Talk About That. Forget The Script, Forget Everything Else. Just Be Hillary Clinton. Be Yourself.

Bipartisanship Is Nice, But It Cannot Be A Substitute For Action, Not Having It Cannot Prevent Us From Going Forward.

Women Have Come A Long Way, But It Never Fails To Sadden Me When I See Younger Women Saying We Have To Overcome Some Obstacles.

The Only Time I'm The Only Woman In The Room Is When I Go To The Leadership Meeting.

We Need Major Investments For Rebuilding The Infrastructure Of America In A Very Forward-looking Way That Reduces Our Dependence On Foreign Oil. It Is A Commitment To Innovation, To Science, To Keep America Number One And Competitive And Grow Our Manufacturing Base.

I Believe That We Won't Get The Fullest Contribution From Women, They Won't Be Able To Reach Their Fullest Aspirations, Until We Take A Completely Different Look At How We Make Healthcare More Affordable, Higher Quality, With Better Access To Many More Women.

There Is No Question That Women Helping Women Works For Women.

When I Was Growing Up In The 50s It Wasn't Quite The Same. Fathers Were More Protective And Now They See All Of The Possibilities For Their Daughters.

Freedom Is Secured Every Day By Our Men And Women In Uniform. We Must Build A Future Worthy Of Their Sacrifice.

We Have So Much Room For Improvement. Every Aspect Of Our Lives Must Be Subjected To An Inventory... Of How We Are Taking Responsibility.

As We Move Forward To Debate Our Economic And Fiscal Challenges In The Weeks And Months Ahead, One Thing Is Clear: Our Economic Agenda, Choices And Decisions, Will Be Viewed Through The Perspective And The Eyes Of Our Nation's Women And Their Needs And Those Of Their Families.

I Specially Want To Have Young Women Not To Wait As I Did Until My Children Were Grown, But Young Women To Come In To Gain Their Seniority So They Could Be Respected Leaders At A Much Earlier Age. It's Important For All Women To See Young Women Who Share Their Experience Whether It's As A Working Mom With Young Children, Who Understands The Struggle And The Aspirations Of Young Women In A Similar Situation. And If They Don't Have Family And They're Pursuing Their Career Women Should See That As Well.

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.

Hillary Clinton Needs No Advice From Anyone.

If Somebody's Hacking You, You Don't Want Them To Know That You Know. You Want To Find Out What They're Doing, How They're Doing It, And Then You'll Let Them Know You Know.

The Proposed Bush Regulations Put Politics Above The Health Care Needs Of Americans.

Everybody Will Have Lower Rates, Better Quality, And Better Access.

Republicans Support Opening The Floodgates To Special Interest Money And Suppressing The Right To Vote. It's Just Plain Wrong.

Whatever The Deal Is With Other Countries, We Want A Better Deal For America's Workers.

The American People Are Very, Very Ready For A Woman President. They're Far Ahead Of The Politicians. I Always Thought It Would Be Much Easier To Elect A Woman President Of The United States Than Speaker Of The House, Because The People Are Far Ahead, As I Say, Of The Electeds, On The Subject Of A Woman Being President.

On The Subject Of Money And Politics And The Rest, I Have A Dare: Disclose Who Are These People; Amend The Constitution To Overturn Citizens United; Reform: Let's Have Public Financing Of Campaigns; And Empower.

I Have Absolutely No Regret About My Vote Against This War. The Same Questions Remain. The Cost In Human Lives, The Cost To Our Budget, Probably 100 Billion. We Could Have Probably Brought Down That Statue For A Lot Less.

Let's Respect Women For The Value - Let's Respect Everyone, Men And Women, For The Value They Bring To The Workplace.

Hillary Clinton Is Probably One Of The Best Prepared People To Walk Into The Oval Office Certainly In A Generation, With All The Love And Respect And Admiration That I Have For President Obama, And He's Been A Great President, Going In He Was Nowhere Nearly As Prepared As Hillary Clinton.

I Went To Congress To Change The Policies Of Our Country. I Did Not Go To Change The Behaviors Of Members Of Congress.

Did I Ever Tell My Constituents That If They Liked Their Plan They Could Keep It? I Would Have If I'd Ever Met Anybody Who Liked His Or Her Plan. But That Was Not My Experience.

For Three Decades, Senator Arlen Specter Served The People Of Pennsylvania With Independence, Toughness, Determination And An Unflinching Devotion To The Best Interests Of His Constituents And Our Country. From The Committee Room To The Senate Chamber, Senator Specter Offered A Voice Of Reason And Passion In Every Debate - Always Willing To Reach Across The Aisle And Work Across Party Lines To Get The Job Done, Regardless Of Political Gamesmanship Or Gain.

If I Had My Way, Sporting Guns Would Be Strictly Regulated, The Rest Would Be Confiscated

I Don't Have A Nightlife. People Say, "you Need These Cocktail Dresses For All The Receptions" - Except I Don't Go, Because We Have No Idea If We Are Going To Be In Session. But My Husband Has Encouraged Me To, Shall We Say, Keep Up With Fashion.

I Have Said It Before And I Will Say It Again: Impeachment Is Off The Table.

Never Trust Anyone

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.

I'm Confident In The American People.

Unemployment Benefits Are Creating Jobs Faster Than Practically Any Other Program

As We Disagree With Each Other, We Learn More About Each Other, And More And More People Are Coming Together.

Coming Together

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.

After 100 Years Of Trying, Finally We Passed Health Care For All Americans As A Right For All - Not Just A Privilege For A Few. It Honored The Vows Of Our Founders: Of Life, A Healthier Life; Liberty; The Freedom To Pursue Our Own Happinesses. ... We Knew That ... This Bill Was Ironclad Constitutionally.

We Will Energize America By Achieving Energy Independence

Go To Find Common Ground; Where You Can't, You Stand Your Ground.

Stand Your Ground

The Death Of Osama Bin Laden Marks The Most Significant Development In Our Fight Against Al-qa'ida. I Salute President Obama ... In Achieving This Major Accomplishment. ... The Death Of Osama Bin Laden Is Historic.

Jobs Mean Freedom For Workers To Support Their Families.

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.

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.

I Always Say The Beauty Is In The Mix.

The More Women We Elect To Public Office, The More Wholesome The Whole Process Will Be, Whether It's Government, Politics, Whatever.

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