“Look, I get the audacity of somebody like me talking about running for this office, but frankly it’s a leap for anybody. Anybody who arrives behind that desk. And yet all of the people who had that job have been mortals who just bring their experience to the table. My experience is that of guiding a city through a transformation, and I think a mayor at any level has the kind of executive, front line, government experience — and by the way, problem-solving experience — that we need more in Washington right now.” – Pete Buttigieg, on ABC This Week.
.@GStephanopoulos: “It’s a big leap from Mayor of South Bend … Do you know what you don’t know about being president?”
Pete Buttigieg: “I get the audacity of somebody like me talking about running for this office, but frankly, it’s elite for anybody” https://t.co/4sQvjfesYA pic.twitter.com/dNCRuhsTpb
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) February 3, 2019
2020 hopeful mayor Pete Buttigieg on US policy on Venezuela: “When you see the kind of saber rattling, by the way, by some of the people who led us into the war in Iraq, I think it is extremely irresponsible to talk about committing American troops” https://t.co/GiFg4q4AcL pic.twitter.com/we9u35U26s
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) February 3, 2019