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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.

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

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

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today.

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

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

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

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

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.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

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

I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.

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

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.

I know about raising money.

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

I never dread going back to Congress.

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

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.

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.

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.'