Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'

Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

I was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.

With President Obama, we will move America forward.

When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'

What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.

The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.

While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'

I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.

I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.

Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.