Nancy Pelosi

I take great pride as former chair of the party that when I came to Congress, there were 12 Democratic women, 11 Republicans, 12.

Can you imagine what's ridiculous out of 435?

So I made a decision that elections make a difference and we were going to recruit women.

mentor, whatever it is that people needed, money as well, have more women.

Now we have 96 Democratic women, but I want more too, and we'll get more in this election.

The Republicans have come up to like 30-something, and that's good, but we're three times that.

It's really very, very important.

But don't worry about the clothes or any of that.

Just be who you are.

I wanted them all, though, as much as possible, to have a security credential.

Because if they're going to go further, whether it's community safety, global safety, or national safety, any of those categories, I want them to have a security credential.

That's why I was so happy to see Jacobs, AOC, and the rest in Munich as well.

They were very well received, and that was really good.

As you know, you have to speak with some authority, some literacy on these things.

They all have 30 years of intelligence, 30 years of intelligence on different committee assignments and leadership and the rest.

And so I know the value of that, and I want them to have the respect for all that they do by their knowledge of how to protect America, because that's so important.

Public safety, community safety, global safety, in every way.

We want women to be in the forefront.

So when women come, they'll say, well, they'll be...

education and health care.