Nancy Pelosi exit interview: First woman Speaker of the House says she’s ‘hopefully the first of many’

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul, unveil her portrait in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on December 14. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON — Nancy Pelosi is proud of being the first woman speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, “hopefully, the first of many,” she says.

Her goal when she arrived in Congress was not to break a glass ceiling but to increase the number of women in the House.