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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today. "

" 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. "

" As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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.' "

" Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down. "

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

" Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance. "

" Politicians are trying to attract people to issues. "

" The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan. "

" 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. "

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

" We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class! "

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

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

" Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it. "

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

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

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