It was a memorable press conference from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday afternoon, as she worked her way through several topics including American relations with China and the move to impeach President Donald Trump.
“Whether it's the suppression of democracy in Hong Kong and just the violation of human rights throughout China, it's the same fight we've been having for years,” Pelosi said about US relations with China under the Trump administration. “For what does it profit a man or a country if he gains the whole world and suffers the loss of his soul? But we seem to be able to ignore the shout-out from our soul on respecting the dignity and worth of every person.”
Interesting perspective from a long-time supporter of abortion, but Pelosi quickly moved her conference onto the issue of impeachment. In which she stretched her logic to compare Democratic efforts to impeach the president to the American Revolution.
“We take this to be a very sad time for the American people, for our country. Impeaching a president or having the investigation to impeach a president is not anything to be…..uh, joyful about,” Pelosi said.
“I don't know anybody is joyful. But it is a sad time. And as you've heard me say over and over again, the dark days of the revolution - Thomas Paine said ‘the times have found us.’ We think the times have found us now. Not that we place ourselves in the category of greatness of our founders. But we do place ourselves in a time of urgency on the threat to the Constitution, a system of checks and balances that is being made."
"It is, uh - they fought for our independence. They declared independence. They fought and won. They established a democracy,” Pelosi continued.
“Thank God they made the Constitution amendable so we could always, ever be expanding freedom. And we see the actions of this president being an assault on the Constitution. ”