Thinker Comparison

Nancy Pelosi vs. Muhammad Ali

Read 20 entries attributed to Nancy Pelosi alongside 20 attributed to Muhammad Ali. Compare the wording and topic labels.

This page places 20 entries attributed to Nancy Pelosi alongside 20 attributed to Muhammad Ali. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.

Topic labels present in both displayed selections: time, knowledge, family, justice, life, human nature. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.

Attributed to Nancy Pelosi, entry #125179: "everybody will have lower rates, better quality care, and better access."

Attributed to Muhammad Ali, entry #292: "I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want."

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Nancy Pelosi

1940

Politics
United States
28 quotes

Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician who was the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first female elected speaker and the first woman to lead a major political party in either chamber of Congress, heading the House Democrats from 2003 to 2023. Her 20 years as a House party leader are tied with Joe Martin's as the second-longest after Sam Rayburn.

"everybody will have lower rates, better quality care, and better access."

#health

"Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you, his excellency Bertie Ahern , the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ir…"

#time

"A brazen invitation for something like this to happen"

#writing

"A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

#gender

"As many of you know, I come from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one—it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means."

#knowledge

"Am I going to have to use my ‘Mother of Five Voice’ to be heard?" -Quoted in the October 23, 2006 issue of Newsweek"

#family

"China would prefer Joe Biden, whether they do, that's their conclusion, that they would prefer Joe Biden. Russia is actively, 24/7 interfering in our electio…"

#mind

"I have ordered the flags at the Capitol lowered to half-staff in Officer Sicknick’s honor.  The sacrifice of Officer Sicknick reminds us of our obligation to…"

#time

"I have said to people when they ask me, if this Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain would be our commitment to our aid, I don’t e…"

#mind

"The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity...then yo…"

#justice

"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…"

#life

"Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House."

#gender

"Why should we put a plan out? Our plan is to stop him. He must be stopped."

"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. Bu…"

#Human Nature

"I ask that you immediately cease plans to improperly install Michael Ellis as the new NSA General Counsel"

#wisdom

"Getting back to our Founders — in the darkest days of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote: "The times have found us." The times found them to fight f…"

#politics

"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."

#truth

"With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a …"

#hope

"I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table."

#language

"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 …"

#hope
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Muhammad Ali

1769 – 1849

Social Activism
Ottoman Empire
39 quotes

Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. A global cultural icon, widely known by the nickname "the Greatest", he is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. He held the Ring magazine heavyweight title from 1964 to 1970, was the undisputed champion from 1974 to 1978, and was the WBA and Ring heavyweight champion from 1978 to 1979.

"I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want."

#Human Nature

"I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all hav…"

#life

"I'm not gonna help nobody get something my negroes don't have. If I'm gonna die, I'll die now right here fighting you, if I'm gonna die. You my enemy. My ene…"

#justice

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."

#life

"I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round"

"That's the only way you gonna save this sucker. He's doomed."

"「不可能など、何でもない」(Impossible is nothing.)"

"My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the…"

#knowledge

"My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for wha…"

#power

"Archie's been living off the fat of the land. I'm here to give him his pension plan. When you come to the fight don't block the door. 'Cause you'll all go ho…"

#Philosophy

"We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do re…"

#family

"All kinds of things set us back, but life goes on. You don’t shoot yourself. Soon this will be old news. People got lives to live, bills to pay, mouths to fe…"

#life

"I've got a lot of white associates. Elijah Muhammad, is the one who preached that the white man of America, number one, is the Devil. He's been preaching — h…"

#knowledge

"This is the legend of Cassius Clay, The most beautiful fighter in the world today. He talks a great deal, and brags indeed-y, Of a muscular punch that's incr…"

#Philosophy

"If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!"

#justice

"I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world... True Muslims know that th…"

#knowledge

"I'll said it again, I've said it before, Archie Moore will fall in four!", Cassius Clayn riimittelemä "ennustus" ottelusta Archie Moorea vastaan."

"I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I …"

#time

"30 of Muhammad Ali's best quotes, USA Today, 2016. június 4."

#time

"I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion'."

#life
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