Nancy Pelosi

But the fact is, is that I asked guests from San Francisco who are engaged civically in one issue or another, whether it's health or immigration, this or that, and everybody just laughs in my face.

You want me to go there?

Well, I think the most exciting thing for me was standing behind President Barack Obama when he signed the Affordable Care Act.

That was just so remarkable.

Millions of more people getting access to health care.

150 million families who already had health care getting better benefits and the rest.

Being a woman no longer being a pre-existing medical condition.

No pre-existing conditions preventing people from having access.

The list goes on.

So that, because, you know, it's so funny because when I go places, people go, you know, they gesture that.

And I'm like, hey, what about the Affordable Care Act?

What about?

And I give credit to the House members for having the courage to take the votes.

In my district, that's easy.

But in their districts, not so.

And the Republicans were always, always, they're going to raise taxes.

It's going to increase the debt.

It's going to lose jobs.

precisely describing what their policies do, but projecting that onto us.

So our members had courage to vote for all these things.