Top 55 Nancy Pelosi Quotes

As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.

I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

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.

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

I read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what?

If you don’t vote, you don’t count.

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.’

My vision for the future always centers around our children – it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: ‘Our children, our children, our children.’

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.

I have newspapers coming to me and saying, ‘Can we get in on the TARP?’.

Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don’t.

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.

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.

I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA.

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

The name ‘Republican’ in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.

While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, ‘I want to destroy government.’

As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don’t see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I’ve had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It’s just plain wrong.

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it’s going to work. You can’t always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you’re needed most.

I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I’m going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.

I know about raising money.

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.

The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.

What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they’re saying, ‘Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don’t let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.’

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.

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 don’t know any member of Congress who ever said, ‘I’m satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.’

I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.

I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children – my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.

Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby‘s cast when he hurt his hand.

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

When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: ‘I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I’d be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I’ll be happy to.’ And do you know what she said to me? ‘Mother, get a life!’

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory… of how we are taking responsibility.

I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.

My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.

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

Jobs are central to the American dream – and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.

If people don’t have a job, they’re not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.

I don’t know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, ‘I hope you bomb Assad.’ Certainly plenty have said, ‘No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.’

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.

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.

Don’t underestimate your opponent, but don’t overestimate them, either.

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.

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.

Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.

I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

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.

I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship.

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.