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Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

Christine Pelosi

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Christine Pelosi
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 5
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Political Adviser
the United States of America
Christine Paule Pelosi
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When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for ALL - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.
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Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women’s movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.
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Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'
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Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.
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We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.
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After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.
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'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.
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The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.
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If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.
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You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.
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No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy - Democrat, Republican or otherwise.
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Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.
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Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.
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