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We actually know that our crumbling pipelines, roads, and bridges are ticking time bombs. That is why President Obama and Congressional Democrats have pushed to fund jobs that repair our roads, runways, and railways - we can't have first rate American communities with third-world American infrastructure.

- Christine Pelosi

Repair, Ticking, Bombs, Bridges

Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.

- Christine Pelosi

Reason, Through, Some, Delay

The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.

- Christine Pelosi

Donald, Rumsfeld, Reagan, Postmodern

A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy.

- Christine Pelosi

Politics, Green, Generation, Our Planet

For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.

- Christine Pelosi

Go, Free Market, Citizen, Advocacy

Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues to stifle democratic voices and progressive policies.

- Christine Pelosi

Wealth, Achieve, Stifle, Progressive

When Proposition 8 passed in California, some were quick to blame minority voters, some of whom had voted for both President Obama and Proposition 8; however, these claims were later debunked as being overstated.

- Christine Pelosi

Some, Quick, However, Claims

Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

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Responsibility, Highest, Civic

You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

- Christine Pelosi

Voting, Teach, Bring, Civic

My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner plates while setting out bowls for breakfast; making sure we ate our breakfast while lining up bread, lunch meats, apples, and snacks assembly-line style so we could make our lunches.

- Christine Pelosi

Lunch, Checking, Bowls, Preparing

The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.

- Christine Pelosi

Luck, Voice, Obama, Pregnancy

If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

- Christine Pelosi

Own, Why, Assault, Undergo

In politics, all candidates and volunteers are ambassadors to voters who expect better than parroting the politics of personal destruction. Being able to find common ground at the higher ground is what separates the stateswoman from the stuntwoman.

- Christine Pelosi

Politics, Common, Voters, Ambassador

After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.

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Election, Quickly, Became, Ambassador

Once Joe Paterno learned that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was showering with a young boy in the Penn State football locker room, he had two choices: think of the child as his own and call police. Or not. He chose the latter.

- Christine Pelosi

Young, Joe, Penn, Locker Room

The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.

- Christine Pelosi

Beauty, American, Box, Earner

Remember the Dreamers whose patriotism was praised when the Democratic House passed, and the Senate filibustered - the DREAM Act in 2010? Washington promised a path to citizenship, not just a roadblock to deportation.

- Christine Pelosi

Citizenship, Whose, Praised, Deportation

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

- Christine Pelosi

Francisco, San, Cases, Attorneys

When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

- Christine Pelosi

More, Some, Progressives, Common Sense

I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone.

- Christine Pelosi

Everyone, Abuse, Mentality, Priests

Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's 2006 attacks on Michael J. Fox for campaigning about stem cell research.

- Christine Pelosi

About, Campaigning, Cell, Cell Research

Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

- Christine Pelosi

Big, Mitt Romney, Romney, Presidential

No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy - Democrat, Republican or otherwise.

- Christine Pelosi

Candidate, Otherwise, Presidential

If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

- Christine Pelosi

Say, Immigrant, Must, Betray

Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'

- Christine Pelosi

Possibilities, Batting, Camp

Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.

- Christine Pelosi

Green, Action, Being, Aspiration

When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

- Christine Pelosi

Color, Orientation, About, Apology

Women are the majority of immigrants yet the minority of immigrant employment visas; immigrant and native born women who work in the service arena - such as domestic workers - are not valued for their work, making pennies on the dollar compared to male counterparts; and, women are disproportionately affected by family reunification policies.

- Christine Pelosi

Policies, Minority, Arena, Pennies

Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.

- Christine Pelosi

Color, Run, Exception, Communities

Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.

- Christine Pelosi

Pay, Beneath, Many, Crumbling

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