Tag: Pete Buttigieg
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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.
Pete Buttigieg
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I was well into adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay. It took years of struggle and growth for me to recognize that it’s just a fact of life, like having brown hair, and part of who I am.
Pete Buttigieg
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We’ve got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people.
Pete Buttigieg
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I think there’s a lot to be said for changing the balance of what we tax: wealth versus work.
Pete Buttigieg
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If somebody is saying that I should not compete because I’m a man, I don’t know what to say to that. And if somebody is saying that I had it easy, I would invite them to join the military and enter Indiana politics in 2010 as a gay person. See how easy they find it.
Pete Buttigieg
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If I’m plowing the snow and filling in potholes, then I’m a good mayor, and if we fail to do that, I’m not. And it’s got almost nothing to do with whether, when I come home, it’s to a husband or to a wife.
Pete Buttigieg
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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
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I’m proud of who I am. I am proud of my husband and our marriage.
Pete Buttigieg
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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.
Pete Buttigieg
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An election is supposed to be about our whole country – we can’t just concentrate on those areas where people, for the most part, already agree with us.
Pete Buttigieg