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" 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

Vision

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" 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!' "

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" Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well. "

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" Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise. "

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" 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.' "

" For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality. "

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

" With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

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" I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.' "

" 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 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.' "

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

" The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists. "

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

" 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. "

" I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "