A biography for Pete Buttigieghasn’t been written yet.
“I'm proud of who I am. I am proud of my husband and our marriage.”
“You're not free if you can't start a small business because you fear losing your health care, and you're certainly not free if a male boss or politician prevents you from making decisions about your own reproductive health.”
“I believe in capitalism as long as there's a strong rule of law around it.”
“A Midwestern municipal government isn't the first thing that leaps to mind when you think of innovation, but it ought to be.”
“I just feel more comfortable with my sleeves rolled up.”
“The death penalty has been one of many examples where racial discrimination has played out. You can see it in the simple fact that someone convicted of the same crime is more likely to face the death penalty if they are black.”
“I do think, actually, one thing I noticed with Silicon Valley post-Trump is it kind of made them more politically aware, more aware that, like, business and philanthropy alone isn't going to make the world a better place.”
“I've never believed in running for office so you can eventually run for some other office.”
“I am a Democrat because I believe in protecting freedom, fairness, families, and the future.”
“In 'Palaces for the People,' Eric Klinenberg offers a new perspective on what people and places have to do with each other, by looking at the social side of our physical spaces.”
“I think for those of us who think that our morality is something that needs to be in touch with our religious faith personally, then it's really important to explain that no one party has a monopoly on faith.”
“Things are changing tectonically in our country, and we can't just keep doing what we've been doing.”
“I don't know how it plays in San Francisco. But I can tell you I came out, during a reelection campaign, in Indiana, while Mike Pence was the governor. And I wound up winning reelection by 80 percent.”
“By high school, I had traded my oversized, thick glasses for contact lenses, but my eyesight was getting worse every year, smothering my childhood aspiration of becoming an astronaut or, at least, a pilot.”
“You could be a senior senator and have never managed more than a hundred people in your life.”
“The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War.”
“Tearing apart a community, a business, and a family will make America worse off, every time.”
“A lot of these so-called left positions are actually centrist by the standards of the American people, just not by members of the American Congress.”
“Our neighborhoods are safer when there is trust between communities and the police who are in charge of protecting them.”
“Let's be under no illusions: There are attacks on, for example, transgender Americans from the Oval Office, picking on troops - people willing to lay down their lives for this country - not to mention teenagers in our high schools. So we've got to end the war on trans Americans.”