Nancy Pelosi

“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.”

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

“We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.”

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

“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 was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.”

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

“I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.”

“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.”

“Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.”

“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.”