Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday that she often thinks about the policies she would put in place if she “ruled the world.”
Pelosi delivered a speech at the 67th Annual Session of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon, Portugal, after being named the first recipient of the Women For Peace and Security Award.
“[P]eople ask me, ‘If you ruled the world, what one thing would you do?’ – I think about that a lot,” the House speaker said.
After which she said that it “would be easy” to choose one policy she would choose over everything else if she ran the world.
“It would be to prioritize the education of women and girls,” she said. “It would make the biggest difference not only in their lives, their families, their communities but to the world.”
“Because we truly do believe that when women succeed, America succeeds – or any country succeeds. But globally, we all succeed,” she added.
The award will be displayed in the Speaker’s Office in the Capitol as a reminder of “the importance of parliaments in the work of security, the economy, governance,” Pelosi said.
Pelosi vowed to enact federal abortion legislation in early September after the Texas Heartbeat Act passed. She maintained that the law “delivers catastrophe to women in Texas, particularly women of color and women from low-income communities.”
