137 Quotes by Pete Buttigieg

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

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?

Things are changing tectonically in our country, and we can't just keep doing what we've been doing.

There's this romantic idea that's built up around war. But the pragmatic view is there are tons of people of my generation who have lost their lives, lost their marriages, or lost their health as a consequence of being sent to wars which could have been avoided.

So much of politics is about people's relationships with themselves. You do better if you make people feel secure in who they are.

I have not reached a considered position on the question of court-packing. Although I don't think we should be laughing at it.

The center of gravity of the American people is way to the left of the center of gravity of Congress and, in many ways, to the left of the national Democratic Party.

Donald Trump got elected because, in his twisted way, he pointed out the huge troubles in our economy and our democracy.

I get the urge people will have after Trump. 'Look at the chaos and the exhaustion: Wouldn't it be better to go back to something more stable with somebody we know?' But there's no going back to a pre-Trump universe. We can't be saying the system will be fine again just like it was. Because that's not true; it wasn't fine.