You can’t just let companies self-regulate, and I’ve gotta think they get that, too. Pete Buttigieg Read Quote
The background of a mayor of a city of any size is a background of somebody who on one hand is an executive and on the other hand is very close to the ground. Pete Buttigieg Read Quote
The challenge in confronting Trump is that there are certain things that he does that that you have to respond to, just morally. When he lies, you’ve got to correct the lie, which will keep you busy because he does it so often. When he does something wrong, you’ve got to point to it. Pete Buttigieg Read Quote
One respect in which I’m very much my father’s son is how I feel about Joyce. ‘Ulysses’ is very much about daily life, when you get into this other guy’s life and you learn about the things he cares about, and why he cares about them. And then, very indirectly, very subtly, you learn why politics has impacted his life, too. Pete Buttigieg Read Quote
Because reading is a way of putting yourself in someone else’s experience, especially reading fiction. Pete Buttigieg Read Quote
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. Pete Buttigieg Read Quote
By the way, if you ever watch Prince Harry on a panel or giving a talk, you can tell that as royals go, he’s comparatively normal, and I think that’s largely because he had a workplace experience with people with radically different social backgrounds. Pete Buttigieg Read Quote
In my generation, thankfully, as somebody who served in the Afghanistan War, would have served in the Iraq War, if called to do so – was also strongly against the Iraq War, from the beginning – I’m so thankful that we live in a moment that we can honor the troops separately from policy. Pete Buttigieg Read Quote
I think of myself as a democratic capitalist, although I think the word ‘socialism’ loses its meaning every time that it is used to describe literally any policy left of far right by the current Republicans. Pete Buttigieg Read Quote
