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Nancy Pelosi

πŸ‘€ Speaker
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956 total appearances

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Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

And my why is the one and only child in America who lives in poverty and goes to sleep hungry at night. That's what took me from housewife, housemember to house speaker, knowing that. So when people want to be involved, I'll say, know your power, know your strengths. And they are manifold, even if you're not thinking that they are. Understand that they are.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

And my why is the one and only child in America who lives in poverty and goes to sleep hungry at night. That's what took me from housewife, housemember to house speaker, knowing that. So when people want to be involved, I'll say, know your power, know your strengths. And they are manifold, even if you're not thinking that they are. Understand that they are.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

Know the power of you, the only person in the history of the world like you. So know, be you, the authenticity of you is what is a strength. You may admire other people, want to be like, or, you know, be mentored by, it's all good, but be you. Okay, know your power, be you. And then when the opportunity presents itself, and you never know when, you'll be ready.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

Know the power of you, the only person in the history of the world like you. So know, be you, the authenticity of you is what is a strength. You may admire other people, want to be like, or, you know, be mentored by, it's all good, but be you. Okay, know your power, be you. And then when the opportunity presents itself, and you never know when, you'll be ready.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

Well, let me clarify what we're saying here. First of all, in answer to that question, no. What happened wasβ€” He came in and was very disrespectful of the Congress. And he talked politics. This is about policy. It's about governance. So on the first page, I thought, oh, he's not telling the truth there. So I make a notch wherever he wasn't, a tear.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

Well, let me clarify what we're saying here. First of all, in answer to that question, no. What happened wasβ€” He came in and was very disrespectful of the Congress. And he talked politics. This is about policy. It's about governance. So on the first page, I thought, oh, he's not telling the truth there. So I make a notch wherever he wasn't, a tear.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

The next page, the next page, the next page, the next page. So I would make a tear every place that I thought he was not telling the truth.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

The next page, the next page, the next page, the next page. So I would make a tear every place that I thought he was not telling the truth.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

And so I realized as we were getting into the speech that it was every page. It was every page. It was horrible. It was a manifesto of misrepresentations in my view. So at the end, I thought, I have to tear this up now. I thought my staff neverβ€”we've never discussed it under any circumstance. This is a completely different thing. So I thought they're really going to beβ€”

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

And so I realized as we were getting into the speech that it was every page. It was every page. It was horrible. It was a manifesto of misrepresentations in my view. So at the end, I thought, I have to tear this up now. I thought my staff neverβ€”we've never discussed it under any circumstance. This is a completely different thing. So I thought they're really going to beβ€”

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

because I haven't discussed this with anybody like that. I didn't even plan it until he gave this horrible speech. But I have received, of all the things, in terms of passing affordable care, all kinds of proud legislation that we have passed to make a difference in people's lives, more people talk about tearing up the speech or pointing to him in the room or walking out of the White House.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

because I haven't discussed this with anybody like that. I didn't even plan it until he gave this horrible speech. But I have received, of all the things, in terms of passing affordable care, all kinds of proud legislation that we have passed to make a difference in people's lives, more people talk about tearing up the speech or pointing to him in the room or walking out of the White House.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

More people, they said, you took the words right out of my mouth when you tore up that speech. I mean, all over the world. Yeah, I know. When I've traveled all over the world, people will be like this. Really?

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

More people, they said, you took the words right out of my mouth when you tore up that speech. I mean, all over the world. Yeah, I know. When I've traveled all over the world, people will be like this. Really?

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

He did not respect. Now, getting back to your point, though, about... instinct and all of that. What I do talk about in my book, and I want women to take real pride in for themselves, is that Women have an intuition. We used to call it women's intuition way back when in the day. But there's an intuition.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

He did not respect. Now, getting back to your point, though, about... instinct and all of that. What I do talk about in my book, and I want women to take real pride in for themselves, is that Women have an intuition. We used to call it women's intuition way back when in the day. But there's an intuition.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

Never was. Never was, never will be. So when you're a member of Congress, you act in a deductive way. You have hearings. You have public comment. So when you're there to go vote, it's not like you have to vote in a minute. You've had time. to absorb and learn and exchange ideas and this or that, or just be further reinforced in your point of view in terms of your vision and your values. Yes.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

Never was. Never was, never will be. So when you're a member of Congress, you act in a deductive way. You have hearings. You have public comment. So when you're there to go vote, it's not like you have to vote in a minute. You've had time. to absorb and learn and exchange ideas and this or that, or just be further reinforced in your point of view in terms of your vision and your values. Yes.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

But when you're an executive, for example, a speaker is an executive, right? Some things happen that are not about a vote on the floor. They're just something that happens that requires action right away. If you're the president, the governor, the speaker, the mayor, you have to act right away. So you have to be prepared. You have to have knowledge.

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Gets Wise with Nancy Pelosi

But when you're an executive, for example, a speaker is an executive, right? Some things happen that are not about a vote on the floor. They're just something that happens that requires action right away. If you're the president, the governor, the speaker, the mayor, you have to act right away. So you have to be prepared. You have to have knowledge.