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" I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people. "

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" 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. "

" Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed. "

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

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

" The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House. "

" I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship. "

" Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional. "

" 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.' "

" Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me. "

" I know about raising money. "

" Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs. "

" I had a friend who was getting married. I said, 'You're getting married - I didn't know about all this!' She said, 'I need health benefits.' "

" I never dread going back to Congress. "

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

" I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan. "

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

" 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. "

" As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country. "

" 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. "

" The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history. "

" Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward. "

" 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.' "

" Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand. "

" 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. "

" We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what? "

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