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Tunisians are very friendly.
We can't look for greatness in the past.
I've always been terrible at land navigation.
I was in high school when Columbine happened.
I think that policy matters. I'm a policy guy.
My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man.
I just feel more comfortable with my sleeves rolled up.
The world is changing, but it is not changing on its own.
We've never been a party to obstruct for obstruction sake.
Building a wall won't solve our border security challenges.
I'm proud of who I am. I am proud of my husband and our marriage.
There's a lot to be said for expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit.
We've got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people.
I believe in capitalism as long as there's a strong rule of law around it.
My voting rights agenda is not that different from what you'd see in H.R. 1.
The old line of thought used to be that local government is the bush leagues.
Most people have trouble pronouncing my name, so they just call me 'Mayor Pete.'
I think people in our party tie themselves up in pretzels trying to be more electable.
The Electoral College needs to go, because it's made our society less and less democratic.
You're not free if you can't sue a financial institution that gets caught ripping you off.
I've never believed in running for office so you can eventually run for some other office.
I am a Democrat because I believe in protecting freedom, fairness, families, and the future.
Tearing apart a community, a business, and a family will make America worse off, every time.
You could be a senior senator and have never managed more than a hundred people in your life.
I think there's a lot to be said for changing the balance of what we tax: wealth versus work.
Mayors love lists when they say something good about their city and hate them when they don't.
As Democrats and progressives look to the future, we should remember our most essential values.
I don't have to go on a tour to find out what's happening in middle America. I just go to Target.
Being gay isn't something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.
It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.
Because reading is a way of putting yourself in someone else's experience, especially reading fiction.
When people are economically or socially dislocated, they are always more vulnerable to being radicalized.
Our right to practice our faith freely is respected up to the point where doing so involves harming others.
In many ways, Trump appeals to people's smallness, their fears, whatever part of them wants to look backward.
So much of what Christ's teachings are about have to do with the way that we take care of the least among us.
I think people are just puzzled by why people where I'm from make the political choices sometimes that they do.
So, I've learned - as a young Democrat, I've learned to think cautiously before offering advice to Nancy Pelosi.
As a consultant at McKinsey, I learned the value of data and the ability to shape that information into an answer.
I am not skilled enough or energetic enough to craft a persona. I just have to be who I am and hope people like it.
Our neighborhoods are safer when there is trust between communities and the police who are in charge of protecting them.
Donald Trump got elected because, in his twisted way, he pointed out the huge troubles in our economy and our democracy.
A Midwestern municipal government isn't the first thing that leaps to mind when you think of innovation, but it ought to be.
I have not reached a considered position on the question of court-packing. Although I don't think we should be laughing at it.
The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War.
If Medicare today includes Medicare supplemental, why wouldn't Medicare for all include a Medicare supplement for all who want it?
So much of politics is about people's relationships with themselves. You do better if you make people feel secure in who they are.
Physically robust infrastructure is not enough if it fails to foster a healthy community; ultimately, all infrastructure is social.
My surname, Buttigieg (Boot-edge-edge), is very common in my father's country of origin, the tiny island of Malta, and nowhere else.
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.
I think most Americans understand that we deserve to have universal health care, as enjoyed by most citizens in most developed countries.