- We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it. [Speech on health care reform, March 10, 2009.]
- [on California Attorney-General Kamala Harris] The child who witnessed the civil rights movement from a stroller has taken a lead role in the fight for marriage equality by challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8. As a new generation of women picks up the mantle of progress, she will always be among the first to stand up and step forward.
- [on Steve Bannon] It's a stunning thing, that a white supremacist would be a permanent member of the National Security Council. What's making America less safe is to have a white supremacist named to the National Security Council as a permanent member while the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the director of national intelligence are told, "Don't call us, we'll call you." (February, 2017)
- [on President Trump's decision to ban transgender people from military service] a cruel and arbitrary decision designed to humiliate transgender Americans who stepped forward to serve our country.
- There's probably nothing more dispositive of who wins 2018's elections than where the president stands a year before, the year is fraught with meaning because that's when people decide whether to run or not, and that really is a timetable that's very important to us, and very positive for us right now
- [on Donald J. Trump] I just can't get over this president. He is so beneath the dignity of the office.
- [on President Trump, May 23, 2019] When the 'extremely stable genius' starts acting more presidential, I'll be happy to work with him on infrastructure, trade and other issues.
- Just impeaching Trump for his bad behavior isn't worth it. But if he challenges our system of checks and balances as he is doing, if he undermines our democracy, our electoral system, as he is doing, if he undermines his own oath of office , as he is doing, it is a challenge to our Constitution.
- [on Donald Trump, October 2019] He's almost trying to make lawlessness a virtue.
- Tommy was groomed to be mayor and I was raised to be holy.
- [on President Donald Trump testing positive for COVID-19] This is tragic. It's very sad. But it also is something that, again, going into crowds unmasked and all the rest was sort of a brazen invitation for something like this to happen
- [on President Donald Trump and the first lady testing positive for COVID-19] Maybe now that people who see the president of the United States - with all the protection that he has - and the first lady still having this exposure, it might be, as you say, a learning experience. But more than learning, it has to be something that is acted upon
- [6 May 2022; on Volodymyr Zelenskyy's request to designate Russia a state sponsor of terror] If Russia is not listed as a state sponsor of terrorism, tear up the list. Because here you have the leader of a country, a nuclear power, a country invading another country, and in the -- in doing so, threatening tactical -- use of tactical, nuclear tactics. You have a President of a country who has turned his own soldiers into such acts of violence, raping children -- little girls, eleven years old, repeatedly, in front of their mothers or raping their mothers in front of the children; taking children and kidnapping and sending them -- see, I'm all about the children. That's been my whole reason, that's my "why I'm in Congress" -- about the children. And the acts of violence that are outside the circle of civilized human behavior. Vladimir Putin is a coward; instead of fighting a war, he's fighting against civilians, he's fighting against children, he's using that as a weapon of war. So I think, absolutely, that they should be on that list of state sponsored terrorists, and I'm hoping that will happen.
- So, we are getting some Byrd and privilege. I think mostly we're getting privilege scrub because privilege scrub is deadly to a bill. Byrd? Well, it's important. You have to take it out, but a privilege violation can take you out. So, we're, again, getting that as we go along as well. But when we pass a bill, then they will see it in its aggregate and make some.
- When I was a little girl, I was told at the beach if I dug a hole deep enough, we would reach China, so we've always felt a connection there.
- We still support the 'one China' policy, we go there to acknowledge the status quo is what our policy is, there is nothing disruptive about that. It was only about saying, China is one of the freest societies in the world, don't take it from me, that's from Freedom House, it's a strong democracy, courageous people.
- [November 2022] I will not seek re-election to Democratic leadership in the next Congress. For me, the hour has come for a new generation to lead the Democratic caucus
- We all have found our ways to keep our spirits up during these trying times. Mine just happens to fill up my freezer.
- I don't know what I would have done if ice cream had not been invented.
- [on student loan debt] People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress.
- No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence. Hopefully, the former President will peacefully respect the system, which grants him that right
- [on an elderly Asian-American protester outside her car] Go back to China, where your headquarters are.
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