Pete Buttigieg, a candidate in the Democratic Party's 2020 primary, appears in an old 'Hardball' clip from while he was a college student at Harvard.
town hall on Monday night when the MSNBC host Chris Matthews aired a years-old clip from the show in which the Democratic candidate featured.and a contender for his party's 2020 nomination, had asked a question of a candidate back in the 2004 Democratic Primary.
"So I just want to say to all of you here, get involved in public life. Give back to your country, don't just take from it. And get involved in this campaign. If it's not for me, get behind somebody and get out there and work and make this country a better place. You can do this." He said voters often asked him about the future of American democracy, and that his answer was that he is optimistic because people are good citizens. Gephardt then asked Buttigieg if that answer is still right.
"It makes it possible for a cynical leader to draw out the worst of us. But I also believe that one of the best reasons to get involved in politics, as I felt called to do when I was a student by people like Gephardt, is that you can also use the tools, the skills that you learn as an elected leader, to draw out the best in people.
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