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Pete Buttigieg: “I'm just trying to purge our vocabulary of pretty much…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Pete Buttigieg at the 2026 Global Progress Action Summit - 5/9/2026

Published | Video Starts at 20:23

Having those overlap on less predictable patterns with different international partners could actually be a very healthy thing for our future institutional framework. I'm just trying to purge our vocabulary of pretty much anything that starts with the prefix re, like, restore, rebuild, most of all, return. Because it's not going to be like that and it shouldn't. You know, there is a domestic equivalent in the US of the remarks that the Prime Minister made at … (20:23–20:34)

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Asserts that the focus should not be on returning to past policies or systems.

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