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Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives

The Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, born on March 26, 1940.

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“The more women we elect to public office, the more wholesome the whole process will be, whether it's government, politics, whatever.”

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“Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.”

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“Our view of the law is that it - if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation.”

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“The president of the United States, the most famous person in the world, maybe in the whole galaxy - in a long time - he had to spend like a billion dollars to set the record straight.”

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“As we move forward to debate our economic and fiscal challenges in the weeks and months ahead, one thing is clear: Our economic agenda, choices and decisions, will be viewed through the perspective and the eyes of our nation's women and their needs and those of their families.”

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“As we disagree with each other, we learn more about each other, and more and more people are coming together.”

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“What is key for winning the election is to be able to put forth a vision for our future and how this election affects people's lives.”

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“In terms of winning the election, it's all about turnout and how we connect with the voter as to what it means in their lives to turn out to vote, to win the House, the Senate, statehouses, state governorships and the rest.”

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“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.”

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“Hillary Clinton has a vision, she has knowledge and judgment. She is a strategic thinker, based on her experience and her connection.”

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“I have worn my white and purple, colors of the Suffragettes, in honor of the fact that we have our first woman president, soon to be, Hillary Clinton, elected president of the United States.”

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“I'm confident in the American people.”

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“I believe that Hillary Clinton is one of the best prepared people in our history to enter the Oval Office, with her vision, her knowledge, her experience, her strategic thinking, her connection to the American people.”

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“Everything within a half-a-minute or a half-an-inch is gold, silver, bronze or nothing.”

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“I think that people have great anger over what happened in 2008 in terms of the economy.”

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“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.”

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“President Obama and the congressional Democrats have certainly been responsive.”

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“President Obama came up with tremendous ideas, but he was blocked by the Republicans.”

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“We can all do better. America is an entrepreneurial society. We had entrepreneurs who started our country. And they want us to think in fresh, new, different ways all of the time.”

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

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“The Democrats have been there for working people in our country. That's who we are, trickle-down vs. middle-class economics. That's the major difference between the parties.”

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“Lincoln said, public sentiment is everything. We have to listen to the people and come together as we prioritize our agenda and go forward.”

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“We have our differences since the beginning of America. It's a legitimate difference. What is the role of government, et cetera, federal, state, local?”

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“Hillary Clinton needs no advice from anyone.”

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“Hillary Clinton is an experienced public figure.”

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“Elections are about the future.”

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“Time is our most finite commodity, therefore our most valuable, and I respect other peoples' time.”

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“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.”

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“The Democratic Party has always been a party that is not known for its unanimity.”

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“You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms of role of government and the rest is as ancient as - as old as America.”

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“Hillary Clinton is probably one of the best prepared people to walk into the Oval Office certainly in a generation, with all the love and respect and admiration that I have for President Obama, and he's been a great president, going in he was nowhere nearly as prepared as Hillary Clinton.”

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“Hillary Clinton should be president not because she's a woman but because she's the best for the job. I don't think that any woman should be asked to vote for someone because she's a woman, and that - because the candidate is a woman.”

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“Do not ever say to anybody it's time for us to have a woman in the leadership, because that's the least important selling point.”

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“Hillary Clinton knows, as I did know, as my women members know - that a woman being elected to a position, it's not about what it means to that woman. It's not about what it means to Hillary to be the first president. It's about what it means to all of the women in America, that a woman has broken the ultimate marble ceiling and that anything is possible for them and their daughters - and their sons. It's about sons, too.”

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“Be yourself. Hillary Clinton, you have a great vision for our country. You know the policy, you have good judgment that springs from that. You're a strategic thinker, and you have a connection with the American people that springs from a lifetime of service and leadership to them, to America's working families. So, just go talk about that. Forget the script, forget everything else. Just be Hillary Clinton. Be yourself.”

“Let's respect women for the value - let's respect everyone, men and women, for the value they bring to the workplace.”

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“Let's respect the dignity of women to make their own decisions about the size and timing of their families.”

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“I think a primary always makes the other candidate a better candidate because you're battle-tested and you have to think in ways that other people are thinking in addition to your own vision, how to incorporate some fresher, newer thinking into all of that.”

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“If somebody's hacking you, you don't want them to know that you know.”

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“If somebody's hacking you, you don't want them to know that you know. You want to find out what they're doing, how they're doing it, and then you'll let them know you know.”

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“I think Bernie Sanders understands better than anyone the chasm that exists between a Democratic - the Democrats and the Republicans when it comes to being there for America's working families, and that's what he's about, and that's what we're about as Democrats.”

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“I do think that campaigns are about electing somebody, but they're also about a discussion of the future of our country.”

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“Hillary Clinton truly is sincere, but she has to connect more with the American people in terms of what she believes in and how she intends to accomplish progress in their lives.”

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“In a couple of days, it will be 40 days, 40 hours, 40 years in the desert - 40 is fraught with meaning and symbolism.”

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“[the Republicans] have come up with nothing. They say repeal and replace. That has alliteration. But that's all it has going for it because they don't have a replacement. What they have put forth and outlined will cost more to consumers. It will cover fewer people. It will give tax breaks to the wealthiest people.”

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“So when [Donald Trump] makes his address on the 40 days that he has been president, he has nothing to show for it but fear in every way.”

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“[Donald Trump] has nothing to show for it but fear in every way. To people who are sick, fear, to people who are immigrants, fear, to people who are concerned about the greed on Wall Street taking us back to where we were.”

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“When President [Barack] Obama was sworn in on the steps of Capitol, he asked for swift, bold action now for jobs and education for the 21st Century, a list, an agenda. One week and one day from that swearing in, the House passed the ARRA, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.”

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“On February 17th, Four weeks from [Barack Obama's] inauguration, he signed a bill which saved or created 4 million jobs.”

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“[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.”

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Born: March 26, 1940
Known for: Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives
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