Nancy Pelosi Honored With John F. Kennedy Profile In Courage Award

[ehrnst]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was honored with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on Sunday evening for her long career in public service, including her work to pass the Affordable Care Act and improve diversity in Congress.

“That I too am honored with this award is something I accept with a full and humble heart,” Pelosi said during the award ceremony in Boston. “I don’t like when people say I’m the highest-ranking woman this or that because I thought by now we would certainly have a woman president, and hopefully that will be sometime in the near future.”

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She continued: “However, it did take courage for my colleagues to elect a [female] speaker.”

“I’ve seen many people with conviction and commitment to their ideals. But what’s important is the third ‘C’: The courage to act upon those ideals,” Pelosi said. “In my public life I have seen leaders who understood that their duty was not to do what was easy, but what was right.

“In their name and in the name of all who hold fast to an ideal in the midst of the storm, I accept this award,” she added.

The award was presented by Caroline Kennedy, the former U.S. Ambassador to Japan and the daughter of President Kennedy. Kennedy celebrated Pelosi during her introduction, calling her the “most consequential woman in American political history.”

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[Dennis Donovan]

1. I hope a special 3-way PiC award goes to Yovanovich, Hill and Karlin next April

[ehrnst]

2. Usually it's awarded to a politician who edures public disapproval acting on their conscience for

the good of the country, but I'm thinking that they might make an exception for other public servants in the case for those three.

[Iliyah]

3. K & R

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. K&R

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. That's our Speaker. She makes me proud to be an American.

[FM123]

6. She is so brave, courageous and bold!

How lucky we Dems are to have her.

[2naSalit]

7. Recognition and Honor well deserved...nt

[NurseJackie]

8. I'm SO VERY PROUD of her! Experience and wisdom and courage when it counts the most!

I'm SO VERY PROUD of her! Experience and wisdom and courage when it counts the most! Nancy Pelosi rocks!!

Nancy Pelosi deserves our eternal gratitude. She also deserves an apology from those who insulted her with ageist vulgarities, and who were "too big for their own panties" in their hot-headed, impatient and grandstanding attacks on her. I'll never forget how some among us remained silent when that was going on, or when others tried to defend and excuse them.

All I'm saying is that Nancy Pelosi is a national treasure. She brings so much more to the table than any "flash-in-the-pan" cult-of-personality inexperienced politician. Where the haters and critics see her as only being an "old woman" the truth is that she knows what she's doing. She's a master at her job. We are very fortunate to have her.

[left-of-center2012]

9. This is from 7 months ago

05/20/2019

[kentuck]

10. Hooray!

Deservedly so.

[George II]

11. Probably the best award she could win. An amazing woman who just never slows down.

[Paladin]

12. So well-deserved.

And I say that as someone who has been critical of Speaker Pelosi in the past.

[Thekaspervote]

13. And as it should be... bashed not only from the other side but many Dems as well

Never once lost her courage to stand her ground!

[StarfishSaver]

14. This is great - but it happened last May

[applegrove]

15. Good choice.

[Cha]

16. Oh Wow.. no one deserves it more than Nancy Pelosi..

Thank you, ehrnst!

I see it happened in May.. but I hadn't heard.