Pete Buttigieg Quotes

Pete Buttigieg

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 19, 1982

'Palaces for the People' reads more like a succession of case studies than a comprehensive account of what social infrastructure is, so those looking for a theoretical framework may be disappointed.

Pete Buttigieg

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.

Pete Buttigieg

Greatness will come by looking forward - untethered from the politics of the past and anchored by our shared values - and by changing our nation's future.

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You're not free if you can't sue a financial institution that gets caught ripping you off.

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An election is supposed to be about our whole country - we can't just concentrate on those areas where people, for the most part, already agree with us.

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People in communities like Granger, Indiana, are rarely heard from on cable networks. But they, too, believe it is wrong to deport friends and neighbors who do no harm and much good.

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On this National Immigration Day of Action, it is worth remembering that it's not just Americans in New York or Los Angeles who believe that we need a more humane and rational system.

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Tearing apart a community, a business, and a family will make America worse off, every time.

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I was well into adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay. It took years of struggle and growth for me to recognize that it's just a fact of life, like having brown hair, and part of who I am.

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My high school in South Bend had nearly a thousand students. Statistically, that means that several dozen were gay or lesbian. Yet, when I graduated in 2000, I had yet to encounter a single openly LGBT student there.

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Experiences with friends or family members coming out have helped millions of Americans to see past stereotypes and better understand what being gay is - and is not.

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We can't look for greatness in the past.

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When people are economically or socially dislocated, they are always more vulnerable to being radicalized.

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If somebody is pointing out that there are advantages - many of them unfair - that go along with being male in our society and in our politics, then I completely agree.

Pete Buttigieg

If somebody is saying that I should not compete because I'm a man, I don't know what to say to that. And if somebody is saying that I had it easy, I would invite them to join the military and enter Indiana politics in 2010 as a gay person. See how easy they find it.

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We've got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people.

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That really important freedom in my life, the freedom to marry, came about because of choices that were made by policymakers who had power over me and millions of others.

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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.

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We've never been a party to obstruct for obstruction sake.

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Mayors love lists when they say something good about their city and hate them when they don't.

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