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Pete Buttigieg: “Trust can build, it can compound.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 1:25:17

There are ways to earn trust and build trust quickly. And if we can get that done through results, through actually making problems better, then you get more where that came from. Trust can build, it can compound. And when you have a society with more trust, again, whether it's the government being viewed as more trustworthy or just us more ready to trust each other in our society, then our capacity to do big things gets much, much better. (1:25:17–1:25:20)

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Asserts that trust can grow and accumulate over time.

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