“I won.”

— Barack Obama
January 23, 2009

“Let me just say it this way, the Democrats will retain the majority in the House of Representatives. We have a huge — we have, what, 54-, 55-vote majority. We had a swing in the last two elections of 110 seats. We will — I am not yielding one grain of sand. We are fighting for every seat.

But we are ready. And in the past when there have been these swings, it has been when people have not been ready. We’ve won our elections. We’ve won our special elections. We just recently took a seat that had never been Democratic since it was created at the time of the Civil War.

So Democrats are ready. We are confident about what we have done for the American people. We have to get out there. We have been working hard, now we have to go out. We said we were going to do certain things, we did them, and now we have to go talk about what we have done.”

— Nancy Pelosi
February 28, 2010

“[W]e’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.”

— Barack Obama
October 25, 2010