Pete Buttigieg
speaker
137 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Pete Buttigieg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We have a moment like that on our hands because there are so many people who, you know, frankly.
believed the promises that the president made.
Far too many voters were told by this president, I'm going to lower prices.
We're told I'm going to keep us out of these dumb wars.
And rather than being hostile to them as voters, I think we have a chance now to invite them in because they're asking a lot of questions about how things ever got to this point.
Well, I think we've got to recognize that many of the institutions that are being destroyed right now by the Trump administration also cannot and should not be put back together just the way they looked in 2021 or 2012.
I do think there is a risk that we might imagine that our job is to take power and to put everything back the way it was.
But that's not going to work either.
If our economic and political and social systems were working just fine, we wouldn't be here.
So the old status quo can't be the answer.
We've got to have new answers and we've got to take big swings at major political reform.
Again, I think there's a moment here, for example, on money in politics.
You don't have to be a Democrat and you don't have to be in a blue state to be part of the majority that wants to change that, including, if necessary, a constitutional amendment to deal with Citizens United.
And part of the message that I had in Iowa and that I'm taking everywhere I go is, you
Our economic problems are related to the problems in our political system.
There is a conventional wisdom out there among some political strategists saying, don't talk about what's wrong with our democracy because we should only be talking about the kitchen table.
Those two things are intimately connected.
The reason we are paying more at the pump, the reason our mortgages are unaffordable in this country is directly related to the fact that there is no accountability in our government.
And there won't be until we fix Congress, fix the Supreme Court, fix money in politics.
And we absolutely cannot be afraid to talk about those big reforms, as well as the ins and outs of health care, education, the things we want to do on day one.
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