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" After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women. "

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" I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'. "

" If you don't vote, you don't count. "

" Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one. "

" Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on. "

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

" I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom. "

" 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. "

" When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system. "

" 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. "

" Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do. "

" They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party. "

Republican Party

" I don't know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, 'I hope you bomb Assad.' Certainly plenty have said, 'No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.' "

" 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. "

" I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6. "

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

" 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. "

" My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren. "

" My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college. "

" Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble. "

" My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987. "

" We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel. "

" I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.' "

" If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry. "

" I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.' "

" When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!' "

" Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong. "

" While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.' "

" I was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone. "

" 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.' "

" My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it. "