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.
We've got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people.
You can't just let companies self-regulate, and I've gotta think they get that, too.
I don't have to go on a tour to find out what's happening in middle America. I just go to Target.
Being the mayor of your hometown is the best job in America, partly because it's relatively nonpartisan - we focus on results, not ideology.
I'm proud of who I am. I am proud of my husband and our marriage.
We can't look for greatness in the past.
If Medicare today includes Medicare supplemental, why wouldn't Medicare for all include a Medicare supplement for all who want it?
My surname, Buttigieg (Boot-edge-edge), is very common in my father's country of origin, the tiny island of Malta, and nowhere else.
I have not reached a considered position on the question of court-packing. Although I don't think we should be laughing at it.
Mayors love lists when they say something good about their city and hate them when they don't.
Most people have trouble pronouncing my name, so they just call me 'Mayor Pete.'
I think for those of us who think that our morality is something that needs to be in touch with our religious faith personally, then it's really important to explain that no one party has a monopoly on faith.
I've always been terrible at land navigation.
We've never been a party to obstruct for obstruction sake.
I think people are just puzzled by why people where I'm from make the political choices sometimes that they do.
So much of politics is about people's relationships with themselves. You do better if you make people feel secure in who they are.
You could be a senior senator and have never managed more than a hundred people in your life.
I just feel more comfortable with my sleeves rolled up.
Like public surface in general, sewers are unbelievably important. They're so important that we make sure they work basically all of the time. Which is why you never think of them - that's kind of the point.