Nancy Pelosi Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• My daughter Alexandra once told me, "Mother, you're a pioneer. Now, hardly anybody cooks, but you were one of the first to stop." After 20 years of cooking, I started to appreciate the value of other people's work. So I would, say, go get a duck in Chinatown. I always had the salad and set the table, but I didn't have to clean the pots.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Daughter, Mother, Years

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I'm Nancy Pelosi, but my grandchildren call me Mimi. For me, politics is an extension of my role as a mother and a grandmother. For the Democratic women of the House, our work is not about the next election, but rather the next generation.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Mother, Badass, Grandchildren

  Nancy Pelosi's Speech at Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

• I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

  Nancy Pelosi

  Mother, Sunday, Winning

• I don't reject the concept of preemptive war. I'm a mother of five. I have five grandchildren. And I always say: Think of a lioness. Think of a mother bear. You come anywhere near our cubs, you're dead. And so, in terms of any threat to our country, people have to know we'll be there to preemptively strike. But what the president [Bush] did was, on the basis of no real intelligence for an imminent threat to our country, chose to go into a war for reasons that are still unknown to us.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Mother, Country, Real

• Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Family, Mother, Strong

  "Pelosi: I Never Met 'Anybody Who Liked His or Her Plan'" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 21, 2013.

• I'm a mother of five, and raising five babies, little children, you have to make use of time in a very effective way. So, I think that may have trained me.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Source: www.politico.com

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