Nancy Pelosi Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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 read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what?”

“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.”

“Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”