When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high...
NANCY PELOSI Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying a...
NANCY PELOSI Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladd...
NANCY PELOSI In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will ...
NANCY PELOSI When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an e...
NANCY PELOSI I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has b...
NANCY PELOSI I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
NANCY PELOSI The American dream is about freedom.
NANCY PELOSI Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politic...
NANCY PELOSI If you don't vote, you don't count.
NANCY PELOSI Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
NANCY PELOSI The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
NANCY PELOSI Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
NANCY PELOSI Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time...
NANCY PELOSI The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embr...
NANCY PELOSI America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than i...
NANCY PELOSI We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory......
NANCY PELOSI What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future wh...
NANCY PELOSI Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It w...
NANCY PELOSI Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us fr...
NANCY PELOSI With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the A...
NANCY PELOSI Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
NANCY PELOSI I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I...
NANCY PELOSI My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to ...
NANCY PELOSI Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies t...
NANCY PELOSI I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the ...
NANCY PELOSI I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
NANCY PELOSI Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today.
NANCY PELOSI But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy...
NANCY PELOSI We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
NANCY PELOSI My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade schoo...
NANCY PELOSI Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure tha...
NANCY PELOSI The sad truth is all of this is to pay for tax cuts to for the wealthiest people in our country.
NANCY PELOSI My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children....
NANCY PELOSI They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
NANCY PELOSI My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted ...
NANCY PELOSI The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of ...
NANCY PELOSI The gulf region does not deserve to be treated as a laboratory for political opportunism or ideologi...
NANCY PELOSI The Gulf Coast region does not deserve to be treated as a laboratory for political opportunism or id...
NANCY PELOSI Republicans have been providing solutions and ideas since the immediate aftermath of the disaster, a...
NANCY PELOSI Let's not have a charade about oversight.
NANCY PELOSI should not continue in that job unless we want a continuation of the shortcomings that we have had i...
NANCY PELOSI The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.
NANCY PELOSI I had a friend who was getting married. I said, 'You're getting married - I didn't know ...
NANCY PELOSI Never before have we been more powerful militarily,
NANCY PELOSI It shows the weak ground that they're on that they would mention the sacred ground of 9/11.
NANCY PELOSI It doesn't surprise me because an ethical cloud does hang over this Capitol,
NANCY PELOSI The debate over prescription drug coverage comes down to a question of values, ... President Bush an...
NANCY PELOSI a strong advocate for an independent judiciary, particularly in response to recent threats to impeac...
NANCY PELOSI As others have copied our blueprint, we have departed from it. They are investing heavily in improvi...
NANCY PELOSI A disgrace,
NANCY PELOSI dishonor to the House.
NANCY PELOSI The Terminator meets the Exterminator,
NANCY PELOSI oblivious, in denial, (and) dangerous.
NANCY PELOSI Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which i...
NANCY PELOSI We must be sure that every vote that is cast is a vote that's counted,
NANCY PELOSI His resignation is the right thing for the country and for the people of the Gulf Coast states,
NANCY PELOSI We can choose to help the people who are affected by Katrina, or we can give tax cuts to the wealthi...
NANCY PELOSI The Republican Medicare drug plan is complicated and confusing because Republicans wrote it to meet ...
NANCY PELOSI The Bush administration has spent us into record deficits and piled mountains of debt onto our child...
NANCY PELOSI We're being governed by decree. The president decides on a figure, he sends it over and we don't eve...
NANCY PELOSI Organize, don't agonize.
NANCY PELOSI Many in Congress have been concerned for many years about China's violation of human rights, occupat...
NANCY PELOSI I think that Pitt should not be in that job,
NANCY PELOSI turned their grief into action.
NANCY PELOSI The Bush administration and the Republican Congress should not investigate themselves, ... And parti...
NANCY PELOSI I was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone.
NANCY PELOSI I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
NANCY PELOSI I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
NANCY PELOSI I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
NANCY PELOSI Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the...
NANCY PELOSI Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vo...
NANCY PELOSI The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.
NANCY PELOSI Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were runnin...
CHRISTINE PELOSI Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Y...
CHRISTINE PELOSI Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.
CHRISTINE PELOSI America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbor...
CHRISTINE PELOSI My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homewo...
CHRISTINE PELOSI If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assau...
CHRISTINE PELOSI Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.
CHRISTINE PELOSI The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at ...
CHRISTINE PELOSI The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below ...
CHRISTINE PELOSI Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so...
CHRISTINE PELOSI Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do...
CHRISTINE PELOSI We actually know that our crumbling pipelines, roads, and bridges are ticking time bombs. That is wh...
CHRISTINE PELOSI Women are the majority of immigrants yet the minority of immigrant employment visas; immigrant and n...
CHRISTINE PELOSI Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate ...
CHRISTINE PELOSI Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's politics of personal destruction when it ca...
CHRISTINE PELOSI To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency s...
CHRISTINE PELOSI Once Joe Paterno learned that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was showering with a young b...
CHRISTINE PELOSI Ted Kennedy's inspiration will loom large over our politics for years to come, uplift us in the ...
CHRISTINE PELOSI I think it is a very good motion. The only reason I'm withdrawing it is because there is no bail.
DANIEL PELOSI No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philo...
CHRISTINE PELOSI We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means...
CHRISTINE PELOSI For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in ...
CHRISTINE PELOSI The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-gene...
CHRISTINE PELOSI 'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imper...
CHRISTINE PELOSI I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the ...
CHRISTINE PELOSI The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the ra...
CHRISTINE PELOSI When Proposition 8 passed in California, some were quick to blame minority voters, some of whom had ...
CHRISTINE PELOSI When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for a...
CHRISTINE PELOSI With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of...
CHRISTINE PELOSI When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud ...
CHRISTINE PELOSI I am an innocent man. I'm ready to go to trial, your honor.
DANIEL PELOSI I'm ready to go to trial.
DANIEL PELOSI I never lied to you two. I am telling you to your face: I didn't kill your father. You know that.
DANIEL PELOSI Baseball fans are collectively the '10th man' and needed most when team performance is shaky...
CHRISTINE PELOSI The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting S...
CHRISTINE PELOSI The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top...
NANCY GIBBS Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacen...
NANCY PEARCEY I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But ev...
NANCY FRIDAY All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on m...
NANCY GRACE A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They a...
NANCY KRESS When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince inst...
NANCY WILLARD In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches...
NANCY WILLARD Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the qu...
NANCY WILLARD I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Ma...
NANCY WERLIN You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon,...
NANCY WERLIN I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is ...
NANCY WERLIN Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenag...
NANCY WERLIN There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback ...
NANCY WERLIN I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's te...
NANCY WERLIN No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book ...
NANCY WERLIN 'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fair...
NANCY WERLIN I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.
NANCY WAKE I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men...
NANCY WAKE I adored my father.
NANCY WAKE I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as t...
NANCY TRAVIS I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with...
NANCY TRAVIS The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are n...
NANCY TRAVIS To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing thin...
NANCY TRAVIS I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship.
NANCY TRAVIS I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
NANCY TRAVIS 'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a g...
NANCY TRAVIS I love zoo sanctuaries.
NANCY TRAVIS No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.
NANCY THAYER The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serend...
NANCY THAYER Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll b...
NANCY SINATRA I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
NANCY SINATRA I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked a...
NANCY SINATRA I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
NANCY SINATRA I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.
NANCY SINATRA I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attentio...
NANCY SINATRA I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family too...
NANCY SINATRA His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the ...
NANCY SINATRA Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
NANCY SINATRA Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip...
NANCY SINATRA I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cru...
NANCY SINATRA After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird sit...
NANCY SINATRA There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.
NANCY SINATRA Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his ...
NANCY SINATRA It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
NANCY SINATRA I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never go...
NANCY SINATRA I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
NANCY SINATRA Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey op...
NANCY SINATRA The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It...
NANCY SINATRA I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and...
NANCY SINATRA After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these l...
NANCY SINATRA What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else,...
NANCY SINATRA I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of creden...
NANCY SINATRA I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research uni...
NANCY ROMAN At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so op...
NANCY ROMAN I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that...
NANCY ROMAN My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own i...
NANCY ROMAN It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientifi...
NANCY ROMAN I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young a...
NANCY ROMAN Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The g...
NANCY ROMAN One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientis...
NANCY ROMAN I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
NANCY REAGAN I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
NANCY REAGAN I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
NANCY REAGAN The movies were custard compared to politics.
NANCY REAGAN You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is differ...
NANCY REAGAN With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at t...
NANCY REAGAN I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
NANCY REAGAN I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryo...
NANCY REAGAN It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
NANCY REAGAN There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elec...
NANCY REAGAN As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
NANCY REAGAN My life really began when I married my husband.
NANCY REAGAN Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists...
NANCY REAGAN I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortio...
NANCY REAGAN I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
NANCY REAGAN Just say no to drugs!
NANCY REAGAN You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all her...
NANCY REAGAN Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.
NANCY REAGAN Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie s...
NANCY PICKARD Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the sta...
NANCY PICKARD I'm Marie Lightfoot, or at least that's the name my publisher puts on the covers of the book...
NANCY PICKARD I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling o...
NANCY PICKARD I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
NANCY PICKARD I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. ...
NANCY PICKARD I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching...
NANCY PICKARD It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk abou...
NANCY PICKARD I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
NANCY PICKARD I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things close...
NANCY PICKARD I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest,...
NANCY PICKARD I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
NANCY PICKARD Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
NANCY PEARCEY The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
NANCY PEARCEY