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" The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix. "

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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!' "

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

" 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.' "

" 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.' "

" 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.' "

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

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

Republican Party

" Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" With President Obama, we will move America forward. "

" 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. "

" The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history. "

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

" 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.' "

" But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy. "

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

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

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

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