Women's Day (3): Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the most powerful female politician in the USA now, and the leader of the opposition. She has fought long and hard to get respect and power from her fellow male colleagues in the Democratic Party "Nobody gives you power, you have to take it away from them", she says.  She lives in San Francisco, she is rich and this makes her "the quintaessence of California limousine liberalism", an easy target for Republicans to caricature. But she is one of the toughest, hardest working and shrewdest politicians in Capitol Hill.  Nancy Pelosi is also the mother of 5 children.  Here you can listen to a long NPR interview (36:59) to New York Times Magazine journalist Robert Draper who is an expert in Washington politics.

Although this radio interview is scripted, the complexity of American politics makes it a C2 listening task.