ABC This Week interviews for 2023 races: on Principles & Values
Asa Hutchinson:
Put the office of presidency and our country above yourself
You should put the office of presidency and our country above yourself. And whenever you've got these serious allegations against you, it's not fair to the country and certainly it's not fair to the party that wants to get this country back on track.
And so, to me, that is the high-level consideration the candidates should give to the important office of president in making that decision for the country's interest.
Source: ABC This Week on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jun 18, 2023
Chris Christie:
America didn't become great by pulling up the drawbridge
America has never been a great country and the leader of the world by filling in the moat and pulling up the drawbridge. You know, we need to make sure that we're engaged. Because, believe me, this is the first fight in the proxy war with China.
But in the end, at the end of this sacrifice, I am absolutely a believer in the fact that America will be bigger, stronger, richer and more influential in the world because we stood by our principles and stood by our friends.
Source: ABC This Week on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jun 25, 2023
Marianne Williamson:
I want to disrupt the system, not perpetuate it
So the system that is now saying that I'm unserious, and I'm not credible, or I'm a long shot is the very system that protects and maintains this idea that only those whose careers have been entrenched within the system that drove us into a
ditch should possibly be considered qualified to lead us out of that ditch. My qualification is not that I know how to perpetuate that system. My qualification is that I know how to disrupt it. And that is what we need.
Source: ABC This Week on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Mar 5, 2023
Mike Pence:
We all face the judgment of history, as will Trump
Q: You said that history will hold Donald Trump accountable. How?PENCE: Well, we all face the judgment of history. And I believe, in the fullness of time, that history will hold Donald Trump accountable for the events of January 6th. I also think the
American people will also have their say.
Q: Trump said in response to what you've said recently about January 6th that it was your fault. That if you had done what he was asking you to do, throwing out those electoral votes, you wouldn't have had a
January 6th as we know it.
PENCE: Well, I know one of the attorneys that was advising the president said the same thing in a text on January the 6th.
Q: Yes, John Eastman.
PENCE: But his attorneys were wrong and President Trump is wrong.
I know by God's grace we did our duty that day, to act out the expressed language of the Constitution of the United States. States control elections. Once states send electoral votes to the Congress, the only role the Congress has is to open and count.
Source: ABC This Week on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Mar 19, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy:
To put America first, we need to rediscover what America is
I'm running to something. What it actually means to be an American. I'm an America first conservative, but I believe that to put
America first, we need to rediscover what America is. And I'm seeing the base across this country hungry for that message. And that's how we're going to win.
Source: ABC This Week on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jun 4, 2023
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