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
Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
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.'
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.
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.'
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.
While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.
My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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.