House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has been saying her prayers — prayers that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2016.
“I pray that Hillary Clinton decides to run for president of the United States,” the California Democrat said on Thursday.
Pelosi spoke at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Ark., where she expressed her support for the former First Lady.
“Let’s set aside for a moment the fact that she is a women,” Pelosi added. “As a person, she will be the most qualified person to enter the White House in modern history.”
Pelosi clarified that she meant that “with all due respect” to Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama.
The House Minority Leader also praised Clinton for being First Lady, a senator and Secretary of State, and said she had accomplished things in a way that no one else had done simply because of her varied experience — regardless of her gender.
“Now, that she happens to be a woman, that is a spectacular thing,” Pelosi added, to the laughter of the audience.
She also stressed that she has “no knowledge of anything except [her] prayers.”
If Clinton did decide to run, polling shows her with a substantial lead over her competition in a Democratic primary.
Watch Pelosi’s full remarks here.
