Nancy Pelosi: Going

Nancy Pelosi is American politician, first female Speaker of the House of Representatives, born 1940. Explore interesting quotes on going.
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“You've heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don't know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it's about diet, not diabetes. It's going to be very, very exciting. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”

Nancy Pelosi

9 March, 2010. Source: http://www.slate.com/id/2279128/ Having to pass a bill to know what is does is a Grin and Bear It cartoon punchline http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/john-roberts-obamacare-cartoon from 1947, paraphased in a 1948 Indiana Law Journal article by then Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3871&context=ilj Frankfurter was in turn cited in 2015's decision in King v. Burwell, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, which turned on a complication in the very law resulting from the bill Pelosi was above describing. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-114_qol1.pdf
2010s

Health , Future

“You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole-vault. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people.”

Nancy Pelosi

11 November 2010 http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/11/11/a_polarizing_pelosi/
2010s

People , Health

“The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity…then you are going to be surprised.-1985”

Nancy Pelosi

[Herrnson, Paul S., Women Running "as Women": Candidate Gender, Campaign Issues, and Voter-Targeting Strategies, The Journal of Politics, 2003, 65 no. 1]
2000s

War , Exercises , Thinking

“Am I going to have to use my ‘Mother of Five Voice’ to be heard?" (to an inattentive audience while campaigning)-Quoted in the October 23, 2006 issue of Newsweek”

Nancy Pelosi
Quotes

“Let me just say we're going to pass the bill this week.”

Nancy Pelosi

Source: Pelosi on infrastructure bill: 'I'm never bringing a bill to the floor that doesn't have the votes' https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/573976-pelosi-on-infrastructure-bill-im-never-bringing-a-bill-to-the" (September 26, 2021)