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I went to Congress to change the policies of our country. I did not go to change the behaviors of members of Congress.

Nancy Pelosi

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Nancy Pelosi
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: March 26
Minority Leader Of The United States House Of Representatives
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Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi
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On the subject of money and politics and the rest, I have a DARE: Disclose who are these people Amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United Reform: let's have public financing of campaigns and Empower.
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Pass the bill to find out what's in it
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The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
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The good news is that we really do think that ... on the immigration issue, that we will, before summer, have comprehensive immigration reform.
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Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age who are Catholic use contraception. Ok, so in practice the church has not enforced this and now they want the federal government and private insurance to enforce it. It just isn't consistent to me.
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I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.
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I have worn my white and purple, colors of the Suffragettes, in honor of the fact that we have our first woman president, soon to be, Hillary Clinton, elected president of the United States.
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My statements are just a statement of fact.
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Be yourself, know your power, have confidence in what you have to contribute.
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The sequestration is a bad idea, all around. It is something that is out of the question. If you have spending cuts, education of our children, other investments, on the National Institutes of Health, where you are hindering growth, you're no going to reduce the deficit.
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Older people are not going to evaporate from the face of the Earth for two years. They're going to have medical need and they're going to have to be attended to. And the earlier intervention for it, the less the cost will be and the better the quality of life.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit.
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I'm confident in the American people.
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We have our differences since the beginning of America. It's a legitimate difference. What is the role of government, et cetera, federal, state, local?
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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.
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Hillary Clinton needs no advice from anyone.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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There is no question that women helping women works for women.
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I know my debt of gratitude to the women who went before, I know my responsibility to young women coming forward.
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