Politics

?Now Come the Really Tough Questions?

By Karina

Yesterday, Speaker Pelosi held her weekly press conference and to celebrate the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, invited members of the Capitol Hill press corps and staff to bring their children to the press conference. She answered many questions from the children ranging from ‘does it bother you that so many people don’t like politics’ to ‘what are some of the biggest challenges you find being a woman in Congress.’ When asked if she knew she wanted to Speaker of the House when she was a kid, she explained:

When I was your age, I wanted to be a teenager. When I was a teenager, I wanted to dance ? I don’t mean dance professionally, I mean just dance. Just dance. Dance with my friends, dance ? I wanted to be a teenager. And when I went away to college, I just wanted to be in college. Every step of the way, I loved what I was doing. But I certainly had no interest in being Speaker of the House, and I had no interest in running for office.

So what that says is, though, you never know what opportunities might be there for you. You might think, maybe I want to be a doctor or a lawyer or a veterinarian, or I want to be a scientist, or I want to be the most wonderful of all, a schoolteacher and teach children. And then somewhere along the way, another opportunity will come your way, and you have to be ready for that. You have to be ready for that.

Watch the question and answer session:

Full transcript: (more…)

Full post as published by The Gavel on April 23, 2010 (boomark / email).