„Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House.“
— Nancy Pelosi
Interview with Barbara Walters (December 13, 2006)
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Nancy Pelosi
Data di nascita: 26. Marzo 1940
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Nancy Patricia Pelosi, nata D'Alesandro , è una politica, deputata e femminista statunitense.
Presidente della Camera dei rappresentanti dal 2007 al 2011. È stata la prima donna, prima californiana e prima italoamericana a ricoprire questa carica risultando anche la donna che ha raggiunto il grado più elevato nelle istituzioni politiche federali degli Stati Uniti. È stata altresì la prima donna a guidare un partito politico in una delle camere del Congresso, come capogruppo democratico.
È inoltre membro onorario dell'Organizzazione Nazionale delle Donne Italoamericane. Alla Camera rappresenta dal 1987 l'VIII distretto della California, che comprende principalmente il centro della città di San Francisco. L'ottavo distretto infatti copre gran parte della città e della contea di San Francisco, eccetto un piccolo angolo a sudovest, che comprende le aree del "Sunset District" e di "St. Francis Wood", facenti parte del dodicesimo distretto .
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„[Under the Affordable Care Act] everybody will have lower rates, better quality care, and better access.“
— Nancy Pelosi
NBC-TV Meet the Press (July 1, 2012) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqONZAN_Us0 ]
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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]
„[T]hey had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.“
— Nancy Pelosi
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (November 30, 2005)
„Why should we put a plan out? Our plan is to stop him. He must be stopped.“
— Nancy Pelosi
Referring to George W. Bush on Fox News (March 17, 2005)
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„Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you, his excellency Bertie Ahern (/ei/hern), the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ireland“
— Nancy Pelosi
Referring to Bertie Ahern (Ah-hern) at a joint meeting of the US Congress at Capital Hill in Washington (April 30th, 2008) http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0430/ahernb.html
„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
Source: [http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/11/11/a_polarizing_pelosi/]
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