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Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.
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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Maryland
Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi
Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro
Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi
Nancy Patricia Pelosi
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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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Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from there. But I do tell you that if the Democrats win, and have substantial majorities, the Congress of the United States will be more bipartisan.
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Time is our most finite commodity, therefore our most valuable, and I respect other peoples' time.
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My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
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Lincoln said, public sentiment is everything. We have to listen to the people and come together as we prioritize our agenda and go forward.
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Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.
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I think Bernie Sanders understands better than anyone the chasm that exists between a Democratic - the Democrats and the Republicans when it comes to being there for America's working families, and that's what he's about, and that's what we're about as Democrats.
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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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Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.
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I'm confident in the American people.
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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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I do think that our democracy is so great, we can withstand even a candidacy of Donald Trump. And when we emerge from this, it has to be respecting the position of those who supported him, addressing the anger and anxiety that they have, and, again, bringing the country together, which was always the purpose of our founders, a more perfect union.
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We will energize America by achieving energy independence
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You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms of role of government and the rest is as ancient as - as old as America.
Nancy Pelosi
The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity... then you are going to be surprised.
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That's why they (the Bush administration) had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
Nancy Pelosi
If I had my way, sporting guns would be strictly regulated, the rest would be confiscated
Nancy Pelosi
I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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The death of Osama bin Laden marks the most significant development in our fight against al-Qa'ida. I salute President Obama ... in achieving this major accomplishment. ... The death of Osama bin Laden is historic.
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