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Beto O'Rourke Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“If I bring something to this, I think it is my ability to listen to people, to help bring people together to do something that is thought to be impossible.”
— Beto O'Rourke, Riding Around with Beto O’Rourke as He Comes to Grips with a Presidential Run
Tagged: Listening, Possibility
“I didn’t want to make money, didn’t want to be in business. My dad was so disappointed. He took out [college] loans, he knew that I took out loans. I was like, ‘You know, I wanna make art. I wanna write. I wanna make music. I wanna create things.’”
— Beto O'Rourke, Riding Around with Beto O’Rourke as He Comes to Grips with a Presidential Run
Tagged: Money, Dad, loans, Art
“I have a profoundly positive story to tell that as a nation of immigrants, we should remind ourselves that our success, our strength and yes, our safety and security, depend on the fact that we are a city of immigrants in El Paso, a nation of immigrants across this country.”
— Beto O'Rourke, Beto O'Rourke announces he's running for president in 2020
Tagged: positive, nation of immigrants, Safety, Security, el paso
“I want to be president because I feel that we can bring this country together. We can unify around our ambitions, our aspirations, the big things that we know we are capable of when all of us have the opportunity to contribute.”
— Beto O'Rourke, Exclusive: Beto O'Rourke discusses run for president, why he’s the one to battle Trump on border
Tagged: President, Ambition, aspirations
“The only modern Western democracy that I can think of that said anything close to this is the Third Reich, Nazi Germany talking about human beings as though they are animals, making them subhuman to make it okay to put their kids in cages.”
— Beto O'Rourke, Beto O'Rourke Interview Transcripts: Beto Makes Series of Media Appearances Slamming Trump- Rev
Tagged: Third Reich, Nazi Germany, Detention Camps
“She does not seem to me to be afraid of making a mistake, or not saying it perfectly, and in the process says the most important—I think some of the most important—things anyone can be talking about right now, and she’s freed herself from fear.”
— Beto O'Rourke, Riding Around with Beto O’Rourke as He Comes to Grips with a Presidential Run
Tagged: Fearless, Mistakes
“I'm going to continue to demonstrate that everyone in every state is important to the future of this country. And no one can be written off or taken for granted based on where they live or how they voted in the past, or whether they voted at all.”
— Beto O'Rourke, Exclusive: Beto O'Rourke discusses run for president, why he’s the one to battle Trump on border
Tagged: Future, voting
“This is really about hatred and racism and intolerance that continues to grow in this country. Hate crimes on the rise for each of the last three years, division being sown by this president's hatred being welcomed during his administration. All of us must stand up against this and for a much better, a much safer country.”
— Beto O'Rourke, Transcript: Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke on "Face the Nation," August 4, 2019
Tagged: Hatred, racism, hate crimes
“This is a city that in an average year will lose 18 people over the course of the year. In one day, 20 people killed in a hateful, racist, murderous rage, in part, inspired by this president. So we’ve got to ask everyone in this country, I could care less about your party. You got to stand up and be counted on this one. There are too many voices that today are still silent.”
— Beto O'Rourke, Beto O'Rourke Interview Transcripts: Beto Makes Series of Media Appearances Slamming Trump- Rev
Tagged: Donald Trump, racism, Violence, El Paso Shooting
“We are making a stand for truth against lies and hate and ignorance and intolerance. We are going to show the country who we are. We're going to make a stand to ensure that we live up to our promise, to our potential, to our purpose as a country. They will either consume us, or they will afford us the greatest opportunity to unleash the genius of the United States of America”
— Beto O'Rourke, Beto O'Rourke Announces His Run For President In 2020
Tagged: Truth, Lies, Hate, Ignorance, Genius
“My sense is, following some success that I had in Congress, and working with Republicans to actually get things signed into law, including both President Obama and President Trump’s administrations, that I may have an ability to work with people who think differently than I do, come to a different conclusion that I’ve come to on a given issue, and yet find enough common ground to do something better than what we have right now.”
— Beto O'Rourke, Riding Around with Beto O’Rourke as He Comes to Grips with a Presidential Run
Tagged: Congress, Republicans, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Common Ground
“I'm saying that President Trump has a lot to do with what happened in El Paso yesterday. Anybody who begins their campaign for the presidency by calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. Anyone who as president describes asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border as an infestation or an invasion or animals. Anyone who describes those who do not match the majority of this country as somehow inherently dangerous or defective, sows the kind of fear, the kind of reaction that we saw in El Paso yesterday.”
— Beto O'Rourke, Transcript: Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke on "Face the Nation," August 4, 2019
Tagged: Donald Trump, El Paso Shooting, Xenophobia
“I don’t ever prepare a speech. I don’t write out what I’m going to say. I remember driving to that, I was, like, ‘What do I say? Maybe I’ll just introduce myself. I’ll take questions.’ I got in there, and I don’t know if it’s a speech or not, but it felt amazing. Because every word was pulled out of me. Like, by some greater force, which was just the people there. Everything that I said, I was, like, watching myself, being like, How am I saying this stuff? Where is this coming from?”
— Beto O'Rourke, Riding Around with Beto O’Rourke as He Comes to Grips with a Presidential Run
Tagged: Speeches, preparation, improvisation
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