But she is most proud – “without question,” she said – of the passage in 2010 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the landmark health care reform bill signed into law by Obama…

“Clearly, it hasn’t been sold,” Pelosi said, adding that Obama needs to do more to convince Americans of its value. “When we went to the health care bill, we knew we were going against major forces of special interests – the health care industry; the antigovernment ideologues.”…

Pelosi is upbeat about the prospects for a female president in her lifetime, namely her friend Hillary Rodham Clinton.

“Why wouldn’t she run? She’s a magnificent secretary of state,” Pelolsi said when asked about Clinton’s prospects in 2016. “She’s our shot” that year, Pelosi said.