Pete Buttigieg Quotes:- Peter Buttigieg (born January 19, 1982) is an American politician and Afghanistan War veteran.
Inspirational Pete Buttigieg Quotes
“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
“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
“Being gay isn’t something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.”-Pete Buttigieg
“Building a wall won’t solve our border security challenges.”-Pete Buttigieg
“Physically robust infrastructure is not enough if it fails to foster a healthy community; ultimately, all infrastructure is social.”-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’ve got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people.”-Pete Buttigieg
“Safety and security are the most basic job of government. I understand that – both as a mayor who works every day to secure public safety and reduce crime and also as someone who deployed in uniform to Afghanistan because I believed joining the military was part of my duty to help keep my country safe.”-Pete Buttigieg
Famous Pete Buttigieg Quotes
“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.”-Pete Buttigieg
“Our right to practice our faith freely is respected up to the point where doing so involves harming others.”-Pete Buttigieg
“The greatest nation in the world should not have much to fear from a family, especially children, fleeing violence. More importantly, children fleeing violence ought to have nothing to fear from the greatest country in the world.”-Pete Buttigieg
“Systemic racism is something that diminishes all of us. Of course, its worst effects are for its victims, but our entire country is held back through the inequality and the mistrust that it creates.”-Pete Buttigieg
“It’s time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.”-Pete Buttigieg
“The first news event I understood as a small child was the loss of the space shuttle Challenger, which President Reagan eloquently mourned from the Oval that evening.”-Pete Buttigieg
“What’s worse: a president who is very faithful to an ideology that you find extreme, or a president who is very cynical and appears to have no ideology at all? Neither one of those things is great.”-Pete Buttigieg
“I kept up top grades, and by senior year, a flow of mailed college recruiting brochures accumulated into an avalanche on our dining room table.”-Pete Buttigieg
Greatest Pete Buttigieg Quotes
“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.”-Pete Buttigieg
“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.”-Pete Buttigieg
“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.”-Pete Buttigieg
“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.”-Pete Buttigieg
“We can’t look for greatness in the past.”-Pete Buttigieg
“We’ve never been a party to obstruct for obstruction’s sake.”-Pete Buttigieg
“Mayors love lists when they say something good about their city and hate them when they don’t.”-Pete Buttigieg
“The old line of thought used to be that local government is the bush leagues.”-Pete Buttigieg
“The decision to serve needs to be independent of your politics.”-Pete Buttigieg
“Military service might sound like a totally different environment, but every experience you fall back on later, it makes you smarter. Why wouldn’t that be true of the military, too?”-Pete Buttigieg
Top Pete Buttigieg Quotes
“Things are changing tectonically in our country, and we can’t just keep doing what we’ve been doing.”-Pete Buttigieg
“So much of politics is about people’s relationships with themselves. You do better if you make people feel secure in who they are.”-Pete Buttigieg
“I have not reached a considered position on the question of court-packing. Although I don’t think we should be laughing at it.”-Pete Buttigieg
“I’ve always been terrible at land navigation.”-Pete Buttigieg
“You could be a senior senator and have never managed more than a hundred people in your life.”-Pete Buttigieg
“I just feel more comfortable with my sleeves rolled up.”-Pete Buttigieg
“I think people in our party tie themselves up in pretzels trying to be more electable.”-Pete Buttigieg
“I’ve never believed in running for office so you can eventually run for some other office.”-Pete Buttigieg
