Nancy Pelosi actually said...

"We cannot allow the perfect to be the enemy of the effective and of the necessary."

"What we had in the bill that we wish was still there, but the fact is that there's plenty there to create that nearly four million jobs that the president has set as our goal."

"What we had in the bill that we wish was still -- we wish that was still there, but the fact is, is that there's plenty there to create the nearly four million jobs that the president has set as our g..."

"As President Obama cautioned the nation, that we cannot allow the perfect to be the enemy of the effective and of the necessary. And we will not."