The best Quotes by Pete Buttigieg

The best Quotes by Pete Buttigieg

Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg (born January 19, 1982) is an American politician and former naval officer who is currently serving as the 19th United States Secretary of Transportation. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020, which earned him the nickname "Mayor Pete".

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

December 2016

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.

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Generations September 11th Gen Y / Millennials

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.

Shortest Way Home

Small Things Rivers

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.

March 2019, via Twitter

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.

Cold War Socialism

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.

April 2019

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.

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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.

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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

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Louisiana Indiana

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

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it!

Donald Trump - Juni 2025

If you're not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for? If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?

Donald Trump - September 2016

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While Walz pretends to support Americans in the Heartland, when the cameras are off, he believes that rural America is "mostly cows and rocks". Walz is obsessed with spreading California's dangerously liberal agenda far and wide.

Donald Trump - August 2024

I am for electric cars. I have to be, because Elon endorsed me very strongly. So, I have no choice.

Donald Trump - August 2024

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

Albert Einstein

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

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Youth Age Generations

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.

George W. Bush - September 2001

2001 September 11th

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."

GTA - Grand Theft Auto - V

Gen Y / Millennials

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

2020 Gen Y / Millennials Gen X

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

Matthew - 7,12

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

Immanuel Kant

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Law Principles Morality

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

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (as President of Turkey) - about war in North-Syria

Turkey 2019 Syria

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.

Adam Silver (as NBA Commissioner) - October 2019

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

Ar-Pharazôn in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 Episode 4

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Even the smallest of us are capable of great things.

Master Chow in Minions - 2: The Rise of Gru

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

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

Data protection must not become protection for offenders.

Friedrich Merz - March 2024

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

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

Ludwig Erhard

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

Ayanna Pressley

Humanity Economy Racism

The war is won, but the peace is not.

Albert Einstein - December 1945

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Peace Cold War 1945 World War II

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

Hideo Kojima

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

Mikhail Gorbachev

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

Margaret Thatcher

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.

Michael Palin

The landscapes underwater don't know any borders.

Marcus Pfister

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.

Nelson Mandela

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

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