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Pete Buttigieg

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Pete Buttigieg is an American politician and attorney currently serving as the United States Secretary of Transportation, a position he has held since February 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Buttigieg previously served as the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020. During his tenure as mayor, he focused on urban revitalization, infrastructure improvements, and economic development, gaining national attention for his leadership style and innovative policies.

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Oct 14, 2020

The president comes from a world where he lives in a building with his name on it, and he doesn't care how this is going to affect everyday people.

msnbc.com
Oct 14, 2020

It's totally incoherent at a moment, when real livelihoods are at stake.

msnbc.com
Oct 14, 2020

It's one of many, many reasons we have got to elect Joe Biden quick.

msnbc.com
Oct 14, 2020

We should not believe what he's saying.

msnbc.com
Oct 14, 2020

It will not get better until we have a leader who actually acknowledges the scope of the problem.

msnbc.com
Oct 14, 2020

the consequences of the virus -- or I think his words were wildly random and extremely serious or something like that, a lot of commonsense stuff in there... expressing regret about going to the White House unmasked.

msnbc.com
Oct 14, 2020

we have got to continue finding ways to depoliticize the court.

msnbc.com
Oct 7, 2020

Well, first of all, I'm so proud of Kamala Harris. She made such a powerful and direct case, got right past the sort of Trump twitter noise machine to speak to the American people about what we know to be true.

msnbc.com
Aug 18, 2020

When President Trump talks like this, it's not only embarrassing to him in his party, it's not only bad for America, it's bad for democracy itself.

msnbc.com
Aug 18, 2020

This is our one shot. This is our only chance to change the direction of this country before it's too late. And a vote for Joe Biden isn't just a vote for a Democratic candidate. In this case, it is a vote for believing in democracy itself.

msnbc.com
Aug 18, 2020

I think we're showing that we not only are unified, knowing what it is we're against, but also unified in terms of what we're for.

msnbc.com
Feb 18, 2020

We could wake up two weeks from today, the day after Super Tuesday, and the only candidates left standing will be Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Feb 9, 2020

It's time for a generational change. I mean, you know, sorry to say this, but we had our shot. We need new people, fresh ideas.

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Dec 19, 2019

this is important. This is the problem with issuing purity tests you cannot yourself pass.

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Dec 19, 2019

You take every ally you can get. You take money where you can get it.

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Nov 10, 2019

He also likes to sharpen his differences from Sanders and Warren as the more moderate centrist approach here to the primary.

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Oct 14, 2019

Your signature, Senator, is to have a plan for everything. Except this.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Oct 14, 2019

Well, it's a mistake on the part of Republicans, who enable the president whose actions are as offensive to their own supposed values as they are to the values that we all share.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 19, 2019

Senator Warren is known for being straightforward and was extremely evasive when asked that question and we've seen that repeatedly. And I think it's puzzling that when everybody knows the answer to that question of whether her plan and…

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Sep 11, 2019

The best way not to be caught up in endless war is to avoid starting one in the first place.

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Sep 11, 2019

Look, what's going on right now is a president who has reduced the entire China challenge into a question of tariffs.

abcnews.go.com
Sep 11, 2019

We have a president who has reduced the entire China challenge into a question of tariffs, when what we know is that the tariffs are coming down on us more than anybody else.

abcnews.go.com
Sep 11, 2019

We need to have a secretary of education who actually believes in public education.

abcnews.go.com
Sep 11, 2019

I believe in public education. And in order to strengthen it, some things are very complex...we have got to pay teachers more. And we have got to lift up the teaching profession.

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Jul 10, 2019

Well, it sounds like a face-saving way to recognize that he's been on the wrong side of the law throughout. There are many number of ways to do research on issues like immigration, but tinkering with the census was clearly racially and…

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