Nancy Pelosi

From my perspective, we won last night. We had one race that we were engaged in; it was in northern New York. It was a race where a Republican has held the seat since the Civil War.

He's one of the most experienced, knowledgeable people in the Congress about health care. But, even if he weren't, the process here is that the Ethics Committee reviews the situation, and then they make their statement on it. So, it's, I…

He is one of the most experienced, knowledgeable people in the Congress about health care. But even if he weren't, the process here is that the Ethics Committee reviews the situation and then they make their statement on it. So I think…

I have concerns about some of the language that is being used, because I saw -- I saw this myself in the late '70s in San Francisco. This kind of rhetoric is -- was very frightening. And it gave -- it created a climate in which we…

Let's move on. Let's get back to health care and the substantive issues.

I don't think there's a great deal of support for sending in the troops to Afghanistan in the country or in the Congress.

For the first time doubting congressional support for the war

I very much wants a public option, that it's essential.

There is no way I can pass a bill in the House of Representatives without a public option.

As the president stated in March, the thinking on the public option has been that it gives consumers more choices and it helps keep the private sector honest. We agree with the president.

By 2035 the average net income for farmers will decrease by 57 percent.

The cap-and-trade part of the bill creates a national energy tax that will do more harm to production agriculture.

This legislation will span the working lifetime of every young farmer and rancher with no off-ramps.

A thousand-page bill of this magnitude deserves thoughtful consideration and debate.

I would be very happy if they would release the briefing.

Those briefings made in September 2002 gave me inaccurate and incomplete information. The only mention of water-boarding at that briefing was that it was not being employed.

Those briefing me in September 2002 gave me inaccurate and incomplete information. The only mention of water-boarding at that briefing was that it was not being employed.

In the briefing that I received, we were told that they had legal opinions that this was legal. We were not told that it was -- that there were other legal opinions to the contrary in the administration, and we were told specifically that…

We were not -- I repeat, not -- told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used.

People are very unhappy with these bailouts.

We're more likely to build a new energy future with good, green-collar jobs for working Americans if we ensure that a new energy policy is an investment strategy as well as a regulatory strategy.

The challenge for Congressional leaders today will be to ensure that we all get there together: working men and women alongside industry, environmentalists, and our national security community.

The way to move forward as a nation is "through science, science, science, and science."

Quite frankly, I would have done it faster.

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