Quotes from Pete Buttigieg

Presidents going live from the Oval Office have used that platform to inform the American public, and also to do one of the most important parts of their job: to inspire the best in us.

In local government, it's very clear to your customers - your citizens - whether or not you're delivering. Either that pothole gets filled in, or it doesn't. The results are very much on display, and that creates a very healthy pressure to innovate.

I think most Americans understand that we deserve to have universal health care, as enjoyed by most citizens in most developed countries.

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

So much of what Christ's teachings are about have to do with the way that we take care of the least among us.

One of the reasons we set up this country, one of the things we celebrate in freedom and democracy of the United States is you can criticize your president. You can criticize the ways in which the country falls short of its values.

Tearing apart a community, a business, and a family will make America worse off, every time.

The most moving responses I got to my coming out in the first place was people, like teenagers, letting me know that it made their lives easier in some way.

As Democrats and progressives look to the future, we should remember our most essential values.

As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don't have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.

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

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

In many ways, Trump appeals to people's smallness, their fears, whatever part of them wants to look backward.

I've always been terrible at land navigation.

You can't understand America without understanding the Puritans. In many ways, we're still living out their legacy in ways that are good and bad.

My understanding of my faith is that - through a Christian framework - part of what we are called to do is to lay down our own self-interests, after the model of divinity that comes into this world in the form of Christ and lays down his life. And in order to do that, you have to care about something or someone more than yourself.

Tunisians are very friendly.

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.

I hope that teachings about inclusion and love win out over what I personally consider to be a handful of scriptures that reflect the moral expectations of the era in which they were recorded.

Being gay isn't something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.

'Palaces for the People' reads more like a succession of case studies than a comprehensive account of what social infrastructure is, so those looking for a theoretical framework may be disappointed.

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.

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.

We've got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people.