The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.
— Nancy Pelosi
Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.
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.
While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
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 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.
My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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.'
I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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.
Democrats embrace The Affordable Care Act. We're very proud of it.
I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.
They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
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.
I know about raising money.
As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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.
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!'
Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
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.'
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 was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone.
I read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what?
When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.
I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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.
I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
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.
My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.
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.'
Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA.
I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'
I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship.
The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
