Pete Buttigieg Quotes

Pete Buttigieg

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 19, 1982

The Electoral College needs to go, because it's made our society less and less democratic.

Pete Buttigieg

My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man.

Pete Buttigieg

You're not free if you can't marry the person you love because a county clerk is imposing his or her interpretation of religion on you.

Pete Buttigieg

We need to intentionally invest in health, in home ownership, in entrepreneurship, in access to democracy, in economic empowerment. If we don't do these things, we shouldn't be surprised that racial inequality persists because inequalities compound.

Pete Buttigieg

I am not skilled enough or energetic enough to craft a persona. I just have to be who I am and hope people like it.

Pete Buttigieg

As we see dislocation and disruption in certain parts of the country, from rural areas to my home in the industrial Midwest, and in the economy, this leads to a kind of disorientation and loss of community and identity. That void can be filled through constructive and positive things, like community involvement or family.

Pete Buttigieg

In local government, it's very clear to your customers - your citizens - whether or not you're delivering. Either that pothole gets filled in, or it doesn't. The results are very much on display, and that creates a very healthy pressure to innovate.

Pete Buttigieg

The world is changing, but it is not changing on its own.

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As Democrats and progressives look to the future, we should remember our most essential values.

Pete Buttigieg

My understanding of my faith is that - through a Christian framework - part of what we are called to do is to lay down our own self-interests, after the model of divinity that comes into this world in the form of Christ and lays down his life. And in order to do that, you have to care about something or someone more than yourself.

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Physically robust infrastructure is not enough if it fails to foster a healthy community; ultimately, all infrastructure is social.

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'Freedom' means a lot to conservatives, but they have such a narrow sense of what it means. They think a lot about freedom from - freedom from government, freedom from regulation - and precious little about freedom to. Freedom to is absolutely something that has to be safeguarded by good government, just as it could be impaired by bad government.

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My surname, Buttigieg (Boot-edge-edge), is very common in my father's country of origin, the tiny island of Malta, and nowhere else.

Pete Buttigieg

Our right to practice our faith freely is respected up to the point where doing so involves harming others.

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I don't have a problem with enhanced border security, perhaps to include fencing. I think the mistake is believing that border security is as simple as just putting up a wall from sea to shining sea.

Pete Buttigieg

When I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works.

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Building a wall won't solve our border security challenges.

Pete Buttigieg

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.

Pete Buttigieg

As a consultant at McKinsey, I learned the value of data and the ability to shape that information into an answer.

Pete Buttigieg

Most people have trouble pronouncing my name, so they just call me 'Mayor Pete.'

Pete Buttigieg