Tag: Pete Buttigieg
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I’ve never believed in running for office so you can eventually run for some other office.
Pete Buttigieg
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I do think, actually, one thing I noticed with Silicon Valley post-Trump is it kind of made them more politically aware, more aware that, like, business and philanthropy alone isn’t going to make the world a better place.
Pete Buttigieg
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We can’t look for greatness in the past.
Pete Buttigieg
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It’s time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.
Pete Buttigieg
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In many ways, Trump appeals to people’s smallness, their fears, whatever part of them wants to look backward.
Pete Buttigieg
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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
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I think people are just puzzled by why people where I’m from make the political choices sometimes that they do.
Pete Buttigieg
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To me, what’s really important about the Green New Deal isn’t, like, one of the elements of it: it’s the concept. It’s the concept that we have a national emergency commensurate with a depression or a war. And then the second part of it, the concept that, in rising to meet that challenge, there’s a ton of economic opportunity.
Pete Buttigieg
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When people are economically or socially dislocated, they are always more vulnerable to being radicalized.
Pete Buttigieg
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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.
Pete Buttigieg