Zitat des Tages von Nancy Pelosi:
My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.
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.
Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.
The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.
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.
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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.
My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
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.
I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
I never dread going back to Congress.
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.
The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.
The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.
I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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.
Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
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.'
We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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.'
The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
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 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.
Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.
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.
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.