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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.