I want a trade that is not trickle-down trade, but trade that recognizes we're in a global economy.

Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.

It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about timing. And it's about timing as to when make cuts, as well.

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

I do think that our democracy is so great, we can withstand even a candidacy of Donald Trump. And when we emerge from this, it has to be respecting the position of those who supported him, addressing the anger and anxiety that they have, and, again, bringing the country together, which was always the purpose of our founders, a more perfect union.

I have always said, in my own rise in the leadership, please don't ever ask anybody to vote for me because I'm a woman.

[Barack Obama] had already signed Lilly Ledbetter, signed SCHIP, the children's health insurance program. By the time he had his first address to the joint session, that is as it is called, the first speech, he could say, this is what I asked for, this is what we have done in the first four weeks.