Nancy Pelosi Quotes - Page 5

I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

Fashion and all that it implies - hair, makeup - is an art form. If you look organized and well presented, people think that you're organized in your mind and you take pride in yourself. And besides, it's fun. Isn't it fun?

We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

My favourite dish is my chocolate mousse. It's like heaven on earth. It's the best chocolate mousse that you could ever imagine. You have to start with the highest-quality chocolate.

Do not ever say to anybody it's time for us to have a woman in the leadership, because that's the least important selling point.

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

I'm confident in the American people.

Elections are about the future.

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.

I want a trade that is not trickle-down trade, but trade that recognizes we're in a global economy.

I don't reject the concept of preemptive war. I'm a mother of five. I have five grandchildren. And I always say: Think of a lioness. Think of a mother bear. You come anywhere near our cubs, you're dead. And so, in terms of any threat to our country, people have to know we'll be there to preemptively strike. But what the president [Bush] did was, on the basis of no real intelligence for an imminent threat to our country, chose to go into a war for reasons that are still unknown to us.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

Take inventory of what you have to offer. Place a value on it. Respect it - because if you don't respect what you have to offer it's hard for other people to.

America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

In a couple of days, it will be 40 days, 40 hours, 40 years in the desert - 40 is fraught with meaning and symbolism.

We need major investments for rebuilding the infrastructure of America in a very forward-looking way that reduces our dependence on foreign oil. It is a commitment to innovation, to science, to keep America number one and competitive and grow our manufacturing base.

Republicans always are gearing whatever they do to benefit the high end.

To have diversity of opinion in the debate strengthens the outcome and you get a better result.

We will energize America by achieving energy independence

I want women to have all the opportunities that they aspire to.

Everything within a half-a-minute or a half-an-inch is gold, silver, bronze or nothing.

Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.

The Democrats have been there for working people in our country. That's who we are, trickle-down vs. middle-class economics. That's the major difference between the parties.

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.