The best Quotes by Pete Buttigieg

I am a Democrat because I believe in protecting freedom, fairness, families, and the future.

My generation is the generation that experienced school shootings beginning when I was in high school, the generation that fought in the post-9/11 wars, the first generation to have to deal with the reality of climate change, and the first generation not to be better off than our parents materially — if nothing changes.

No one is above the law, everybody ought to be held accountable.

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

A river is made drop by drop.

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

The economy is changing, the pace of change is accelerating, and what we’ve got to do is master those changes in order to make them work for us.

If you grew up during that Cold War period, then you saw a time in politics when the word 'socialism' could be used to end an argument. Today, I think a word like that is the beginning of a debate, not the end of a debate.

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

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

I often try to paint a picture of what the world would look like in 2054, because it's the year I get to the current age of the current president.

I don't have to go on a tour to find out what's happening in middle America. I just go to Target.

What does a man from Indiana say in bed?
Hoosier Daddy?!

I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.

After I sang 'Back Home In Indiana' the first time, I became a Hoosier.

Black bandana, sweet Louisiana
Robbin' on a bank in the state of Indiana
She's a runner, rebel and a stunner
On her merry way sayin', 'Baby, what you gonna- ?'
Lookin' down the barrel of a hot metal .45
Just another way to survive

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Indiana - and that's pretty much the same thing.

I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life.

In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.

I'm not going to say it right now. So, everybody, I promise you, in the very next - very, very, very short period of time, you're going to be so happy.

If you want to stop the destruction of our country and save the American dream, then this Tuesday you must vote Republican in a giant way.

You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?

I recommend taking the vaccines. I happen to take the vaccine - if it doesn't work you'll be the first to know.

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. I, unfortunately, will be going back to Washington after my remarks. Today we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Michael: "I'm trying to relate to you."
Jimmy: "No, you're trying to take me on some nostalgia trip. You're such a cliche."
Michael: "Oh! says the dope-smoking, game-playing, live-at-home, world-owes-him-a-living millennial."

2000 was 20 years ago... which is really weird because 1980 was also 20 years ago.

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

We will never declare a ceasefire. We are not worried about any sanctions.

It is inevitable that people around the world - including from America and China - will have different viewpoints over different issues. It is not the role of the NBA to adjudicate those differences. However, the NBA will not put itself in a position of regulating what players, employees and team owners say or will not say on these issues.

Statecraft is the art of attending to small matters as diligently as grand ones.

Even the smallest of us are capable of great things.

The danger isn't the river's speed, friend, but its slowness.

Tyler… you drown not by falling into the river, but by staying submerged in it.

Everything you said or did was a data point you put out there in the world.

People think it's their cell phone that's expensive. Wrong. The value is in the information they keep inside it.

The market is the only democratic judge that we have in modern economy.

We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies.

The war is won, but the peace is not.

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

The landscapes underwater don't know any borders.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

This is America. Anyone can eat what they want, as long as they eat too much.