Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosiis the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and served as the 52nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. She is the only woman to have served as the House Speaker and to date is the highest-ranking female politician in American history...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 March 1940
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
You have to believe in who you are and what difference you can make. You have to care about the urgency and the difference it will make to your community, and you have to, again, have confidence in the contribution that you can make. You believe, you care, you have confidence in the difference that you can make. And that's not to be egotistical, it's just to be confident.
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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.
Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
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.
Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.
I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
To have diversity of opinion in the debate strengthens the outcome and you get a better result.
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.
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.'