Nancy Pelosi Quotes

Elections are about the future.

Some people think elections are a game: who's up or who's down. It's about our country. It's about our kids' future. It's about all of us together. Some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some difficult odds. We do it, each one of us, against difficult odds. We do it because we care about our country. Some of us are right, and some of us are not. Some of us are ready, and some of us are not. Some of us know what we will do on day one, and some of us haven't thought that through.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

I have always thought, genuinely thought, that elections are like world cups. They sometimes look easier from the outside and they are very difficult when you are in the middle of them.

I still believe with Adlai Stevenson that you can win elections by talking sense to the American people.

You've got to lose a few [elections] before you learn what the American system is all about.

I have never seen a poll elect anyone

I formed a great desire to help you be president of the United States. It has seemed to me that if I could perform some service for you that would land you in the Presidency I could perform as great a service for my country as I could perform on the battlefield.

Elections are fundamentally about the future and not about the past.

Donors don't win elections; voters win elections.

Whatever changes a common man wants to bring in the country, he can bring it through the process of voting.

We work long hours during elections.

After one election comes many more.

I think that's what we don't understand as human beings is this is America. It's a democracy. Once we get whoever we want into the White House, even the person we want to get in the White House doesn't get in the White House. We have every right to not only criticize that person but demand that person does what it is we need to get done. That just happens with us mobilizing and us using our voices to talk to the mayors, the governors and the presidents.

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

I have decided to give my support to Theresa May. I intend to work closely with her, to campaign for her and I'm sure she'll be a very fine prime minister of this country.

I know Donald's [Trump] trying very hard to plant doubts about it, but I hope the people out there understand: This election's really up to you. It's not about us so much as it is about you and your families and the kind of country and future you want. So I sure hope you will get out and vote as though your future depended on it, because I think it does.

You know, a lot of the people that are running. We want to go in; we want to have majorities. It's very important.

Every election is about the future, which by definition means it's more about the future of young people than it is about me.

Whoever the next prime minister of this country will be, it will be a female prime minister and a female prime minister who has formidable skills and I know whichever one of the two wins they will lead this country well.