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Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
American Politician
Born: Jan 19, 1982
Country Me People Politics Think You
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I get the urge people will have after Trump. 'Look at the chaos and the exhaustion: Wouldn't it be better to go back to something more stable with somebody we know?' But there's no going back to a pre-Trump universe. We can't be saying the system will be fine again just like it was. Because that's not true; it wasn't fine. Pete Buttigieg
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What's worse: a president who is very faithful to an ideology that you find extreme, or a president who is very cynical and appears to have no ideology at all? Neither one of those things is great. Pete Buttigieg
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You're not free if you can't marry the person you love because a county clerk is imposing his or her interpretation of religion on you. Pete Buttigieg
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Tunisians are very friendly. Pete Buttigieg
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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
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If you're a white candidate, it is twice as important for you to be talking about racial inequity and not just describing the problem - which is fashionable in politics - but actually talking about what we're going to do about it and describing the outcomes we're trying to solve for. Pete Buttigieg
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We've never been a party to obstruct for obstruction sake. Pete Buttigieg
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My voting rights agenda is not that different from what you'd see in H.R. 1. 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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There's a lot to be said for expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit. Pete Buttigieg
Earned Said Lot Expanding Tax Income Income Tax Credit
My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man. 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 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
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When you become a citizen, you are an American and questioning somebody's Americanness because they disagree with you - is about one of the most un-American things I can think of. Pete Buttigieg
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We need to intentionally invest in health, in home ownership, in entrepreneurship, in access to democracy, in economic empowerment. If we don't do these things, we shouldn't be surprised that racial inequality persists because inequalities compound. Pete Buttigieg
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My surname, Buttigieg (Boot-edge-edge), is very common in my father's country of origin, the tiny island of Malta, and nowhere else. Pete Buttigieg
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Those of us who work in politics can only make ourselves useful if our heads are filled with things that we can contribute to the political space. Pete Buttigieg
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'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. Pete Buttigieg
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You're not free if you can't sue a financial institution that gets caught ripping you off. Pete Buttigieg
You Financial Free Ripping Institution Caught Off Gets Sue
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. Pete Buttigieg
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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. Pete Buttigieg
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Mayors love lists when they say something good about their city and hate them when they don't. Pete Buttigieg
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The center of gravity of the American people is way to the left of the center of gravity of Congress and, in many ways, to the left of the national Democratic Party. Pete Buttigieg
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You could be a senior senator and have never managed more than a hundred people in your life. 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 in high school when Columbine happened. Pete Buttigieg
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