Speaker Nancy Pelosi has stepped down from House Democratic leadership after serving in the position for two decades. Here’s what she said in 2007 when she became the first-ever woman Speaker of the House.
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00:00It's now my privilege to present the gavel of the United States House of Representatives
00:07to the first woman speaker in our history, the gentlelady from California, Nancy Pelosi.
00:18It's an historic moment for the Congress. It's an historic moment for the women of America.
00:31It is a moment, it is a moment for which we have waited over 200 years.
00:43Never losing faith, we waited through the many years of struggle to achieve our rights.
00:50But women weren't just waiting, women were working.
00:55Never losing faith, we worked to redeem the promise of America that all men and women are created equal.
01:11For our daughters and our granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling.
01:19For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit.
01:25Anything is possible for them.