In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit.

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide whether it's going to work, and then you turn around and you've been married 45 years.

[The Republicans] have come up with nothing. They say repeal and replace. That has alliteration.

My evaluation of President George W. Bush is nothing personal. He's a lovely person. Sadly, I believe he will be remembered for taking us into war unnecessarily at the cost of thousands of American lives, injuries to tens of thousands of our troops, and trillions of dollars to our economy - enormous costs to our reputation, and undermining the capability of our military to protect us. That, I think, will be the overwhelming issue for which his presidency will be remembered: extensive damage to our country.

[Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth, and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing the dream, by making the minimum wage a living wage, by having not just family and medical leave, but paid sick leave for our workers, [and] by having quality, affordable child care so that our families, the power of women can be unleashed in our economy and in our society.