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" If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars. They would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes. "

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" We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her! "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Enough

Health

Right

" It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Great

Disappointment

Behavior

" Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Where

Running

Position

" When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Back

Woman

Insurance

" Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Party

Hard

Tea

" This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Family

Good

Step

" The reality is I have a job as a national party chair that, one, requires a thick skin. It requires me to be able to absorb the body blows so our candidates can stay above the fray. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Body

Reality

Job

" We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Permanent

Working

Tax

" Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Women

Complacency

Generation

" People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Past

People

Say

" I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.' "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Thought

Words

" It's perfectly O.K. to not be completely predictable. I am a person, and I have individual opinions that may not line up ideologically. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Person

Opinions

Line

" Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

President

Act

Title

" Dig just a little bit deeper. Work just a little bit harder. And don't get weary! Remember this is personal! Let's finish what we started, and re-elect President Barack Obama! "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Remember

Personal

Work

" And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Say

Young

Health

" Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Party

Tea

Now

" We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Long

Waiting

Time

" We are, as a Democratic Party, really highlight and emphasize inclusiveness and diversity at our convention, and so we want to give every opportunity to grass-roots activists and diverse committed Democrats to be able to participate, attend, and be a delegate at the convention. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Opportunity

Diversity

Want

" Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Leadership

Run

Democrats

" The difference between a Democrat and Republican is that Democrats fight to make sure everybody has an opportunity to succeed, and the Republicans are strangled by their right-wing extremists. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Republican

Succeed

Fight

" And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Need

Work

Help

" But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Top

Together

Class

" The Romney-Ryan plan would replace the guarantee of Medicare with a voucher that wouldn't keep up with costs. Congressman Ryan says that he wants Medicare to be around for his grandkids. Well, if that's the case, he had better vote for Barack Obama! "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Plan

Vote

Well

" Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it! "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

You

Need

Judges

" Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Breast Cancer

Risk

Know

" Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Media

Gender

Conflict

" Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Women

Live

Heart

" In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Diagnosed

Cancer

Breast Cancer

" So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Know

Questions

Gender

" Even the Republicans themselves have acknowledged they have a diversity problem. If you look at their autopsy report following the 2012 election, they have specifically said they would continue to lose presidential elections unless they address the problem that they have with their alienation of minority groups. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Problem

Diversity

Election