Nancy Pelosi

“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.”

“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 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.'”

“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.'”

“The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.”

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

“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.”

“Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.”

“Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.”

“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.”

“We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!”

“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.'”

“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.”

“The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.”

“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.”

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

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

“The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.”

“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.”

“Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.”