On Tuesday night, Stephen Colbert sat down with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and spoke about how she isn’t exactly the most popular politician in America.

“You are aware that with the president’s base and with many Republicans, you’re a polarizing figure,” Colbert said.

“I’ve noticed that,” Pelosi smirked.

“There are 130,000 times negatives ad that included you as a negative figure have been running 130,000 times in this election cycle, more than negative ads about the president,” Colbert told Pelosi. “What goes through your head when people use you as a cudgel against a Democrat? They say, ‘We can’t let Nancy Pelosi be the next Speaker of the House again.’ What do you say to those people?”

“Well, I don’t really have that much to say to them,” Pelosi responded to the Late Show host. “I think they say that because they don’t have anything to offer. What are they going to say? ‘We just passed a tax bill that gives 83% of the benefits to the top 1%. You’re trying to do away with your health care, especially if you have a pre-existing medical condition, Medicare, Medicaid, forget about it. Clean air, clean water, we’ve just degraded all of that.’That’s not what they can say, so what can they say.”

Pelosi then admitted of committing “self-promotion,” saying to women that “you can’t let anyone else define you”  and called herself a “very effective legislator.”

Watch the clip above, via CBS.

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