Famous quotes by Politicians

"Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her"

John McCain, Politician

"You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare"

John McCain, Politician

"On the subject of Osama bin Laden... We will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell"

John McCain, Politician

"I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"I think everybody knows that on November 7th more people voted for Al Gore than George Bush, a fact that has been documented time and time again"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"I represent Central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"Today, right here in America, we have 50 million people without health insurance"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War, almost two years later"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"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"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"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"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

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

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

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

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"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"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"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"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"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"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

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

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"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"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

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

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"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"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

"Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again, I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were: education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals, I may say, is health care, health insurance reform"

Nancy Pelosi, Politician

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