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

Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program

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

Hamas is a humanitarian organization.

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

If I had my way, sporting guns would be strictly regulated, the rest would be confiscated

I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.

Pass the bill to find out what's in it

As many of you know, I came from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one - it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means.

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

I don’t remember saying that everybody in the country would have a lower premium.

There is no elevator to success to have to take the stairs.

Sometimes the ones you trust aren't the most trustworthy. Just better actors.

Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice

In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

I felt I had to give back to our wonderful country which has been so good to me and to my family.

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

Goods are theirs that enjoy them.

I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.