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

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" My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it. "

" Politicians are trying to attract people to issues. "

" America must be a light to the world, not just a missile. "

" I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA. "

" Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process. "

" Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented. "

" Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families. "

" I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party. "

Republican Party

" 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. "

" Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either. "

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

" My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college. "

" 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 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. "

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

" What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people. "

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

" 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. "