Former SC Gov. Mark Sanford: “None of us are perfect”

Today on The Lead with Jake Tapper, the newly minted Republican nominee for congress in South Carolina and former Governor Mark Sanford joined the program to discuss his campaign and weigh in on North Korea and the debate over same-sex marriage.

Embeddable video via CNN.com/thelead:   Mark Sanford: I failed in 2009, but last night was a referendum

On the CNN Political Ticker: Sanford says fiancée surprised him at victory event

Sanford on lessons learned after the scandal that caused him to resign as governor of South Carolina:
“I think that there are too many people in politics who think that they know it all. I think they project this whole image of perfection, the perfect family, the perfect person, the perfect this. The reality is, none of us are perfect.”

Sanford on the debate over same-sex marriage:
“I think that if you’re a conservative, you believe in this notion of federalism, that one size does not fit all and that we shouldn’t have prescriptive answers coming out of Washington, D.C., for any of the different things ultimately that we have got to resolve as a family of Americans. And to have an unelected set of judges deciding what marriage is or is not for all 50 states to me does not make sense.”

On his fiancée’s surprise appearance at his victory celebration:

“She completely surprised me… It was not at all what I had expected, but it’s was an awfully, awfully nice surprise.”