Quotes from Nancy Pelosi

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.'

I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship.

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

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.

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

Let's respect women for the value - let's respect everyone, men and women, for the value they bring to the workplace.

No money changed hands, of course.

Since I was in my 20s, I've been giving my face 30 hot splashes in the morning and at night, and I keep thinking, If it's 25, oh my gosh, I'm going to fall apart.

Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.

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

The good news is that we really do think that ... on the immigration issue, that we will, before summer, have comprehensive immigration reform.

We have our differences since the beginning of America. It's a legitimate difference. What is the role of government, et cetera, federal, state, local?

You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms of role of government and the rest is as ancient as - as old as America.