137 Quotes by Pete Buttigieg

Our neighborhoods are safer when there is trust between communities and the police who are in charge of protecting them.

Those of us who work in politics can only make ourselves useful if our heads are filled with things that we can contribute to the political space.

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.

When I was fourteen, Mom and Dad sent me to St. Joseph High School, the Catholic school up the hill from our place, housed in a 1950s-era tan brick building sometimes confused for a light industrial structure due to the surprisingly high smokestack of its old incinerator.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.