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" While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them. "

" 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 have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom. "

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

" I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren. "

" Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs. "

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

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

" I never dread going back to Congress. "

" Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand. "

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

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

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