KEY POINTS
  • "We can talk about what happened, when and what and all that, but there's been something very — a pattern of bad behavior, in terms of how people are treated unfairly in our country," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said about the nationwide protests.
  • "Let's take this moment to be an inflection point, a pivotal one, that we are going to not just proceed incrementally but in a very strong way to do things differently," she said in a "Mad Money" interview.
  • "Let us recognize the role that the private sector plays in the economic life of our country as job creators, wealth creators and the rest," she said.

The killing of George Floyd in police custody and subsequent nationwide unrest should be a catalyst for lawmakers to unify and fight for more than just incremental change, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told CNBC on Thursday.

"We can talk about what happened, when and what and all that, but there's been something very — a pattern of bad behavior, in terms of how people are treated unfairly in our country," she told Jim Cramer in an interview on "Mad Money." "Let's take this moment to be an inflection point, a pivotal one, that we are going to not just proceed incrementally but in a very strong way to do things differently."