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've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship.
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.'
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.
I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.
Democrats embrace The Affordable Care Act. We're very proud of it.
As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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.
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 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.'