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" I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office. "
Nancy Pelosi
I Am
Run
Myself
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" I was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone. "
Nancy Pelosi
Brothers
Older
Pampered
" 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!' "
Nancy Pelosi
School
Happy
Mother
" What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.' "
Nancy Pelosi
Hair
Country
Said
" 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.' "
Nancy Pelosi
Saying
You
Leadership
" The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history. "
Nancy Pelosi
Sued
History
House
" The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan. "
Nancy Pelosi
War
Terror
Afghanistan
" Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward. "
Nancy Pelosi
Going
Action
Cannot
" 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. "
Nancy Pelosi
Party
Ideas
Country
" If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results. "
Nancy Pelosi
You
Want
Job
" I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor. "
Nancy Pelosi
Your Dreams
Work
Dreams
" As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country. "
Nancy Pelosi
Country
Reflection
See
" I read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what? "
Nancy Pelosi
President
Serve
Speaker
" I never dread going back to Congress. "
Nancy Pelosi
Congress
Going
Back
" My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.' "
Nancy Pelosi
Future
Me
Vision
" Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families. "
Nancy Pelosi
Support
Freedom
Jobs
" 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. "
Nancy Pelosi
Work
People
Economy
" Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away. "
Nancy Pelosi
Loved
Privilege
House
" The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. "
Nancy Pelosi
War
Us
History
" We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done. "
Nancy Pelosi
Gotten
Really
Done
" I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory. "
Nancy Pelosi
Memory
Good
Feel
" I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan. "
Nancy Pelosi
Bipartisan
Committee
Will
" Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one. "
Nancy Pelosi
Dream
American
American Dream
" My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987. "
Nancy Pelosi
Year
Elected
Congress
" I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us. "
Nancy Pelosi
Children
Own
Education
" Politicians are trying to attract people to issues. "
Nancy Pelosi
Attract
Trying
Politicians
" 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. "
Nancy Pelosi
Own
Grandchildren
Children
" If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table. "
Nancy Pelosi
Year
Table
You
" They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party. "
Nancy Pelosi
Party
Republican
Republican Party
" The American dream is about freedom. "
Nancy Pelosi
Dream
American
American Dream
" I have a few uniforms - depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me. "
Nancy Pelosi
Best
Me
Head