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“I think the dialogue has gotten so caught up on where you draw the line that we've gotten away from the fundamental question of who gets to draw the line. And I trust women to draw the line.”

Women Trust Abortion Reproductive Rights

Author:Pete Buttigieg

“When no one’s word is authoritative, any crank is as credible as the next person. It is the irony at the heart of conspiracy thinking: You can’t trust anyone these days, so you may as well place some credence in some stranger who just tweeted something exciting, if unproven. ... When someone whispers, “Trust no one,” they are inevitably also saying, “Trust me.”

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Book:Trust: America's Best Chance

Source: Trust: America's Best Chance

“You will never know who is taking their lead from you, who is watching you and deciding that they can be a little braver because you have been brave.”

Leadership Courage Bravery

Author:Pete Buttigieg

“Of course, we can find cases of heinous situations, people perhaps who deserve to die. I've just never met anybody who deserves to kill.”

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Author:Pete Buttigieg

“This idea that we just sort people into baskets of good and evil ignores the central fact of human existence, which is that each of us is a basket of good and evil. The job of politics is to summon the good and beat back the evil.”

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“You can be for liberty, or you can be for banning books. You cannot be for both.”

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“The principles that will guide my campaign are simple enough to fit on a bumper sticker: freedom, security, and democracy.”

Politics Freedom Democracy Security Campaigns

Author:Pete Buttigieg

“I had a professional background in economic development and was fluent in the language of business - even while having fought and bled politically for organized labor in the auto industry.”

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Book:Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

Source: Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

“Part of how you can win and deserve to win is to know what’s worth more to you than winning.”

Politics Leadership Campaigns

Author:Pete Buttigieg

“It was actually Thomas Jefferson himself who said 'we might as well ask a man to wear the coat that fitted him when he was a boy' as expect future generations to live under what he called 'the regime of their barbarous ancestors.' So even the founders that these kind of dead-hand originalists claim fidelity to understood better than their ideological descendants — today's judicial so-called conservatives — the importance of keeping with the times. And we deserve judges and justices who understand that.”

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Author:Pete Buttigieg

“Politics at its worst is ugly, but politics at its best is magnificent. Because it's not just about policy. It is soulcraft and it is moral.”

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Author:Pete Buttigieg

“In April 2001, a student group called the Progressive Student Labor Movement took over the offices of the university’s president, demanding a living wage for Harvard janitors and food workers. That spring, a daily diversion on the way to class was to see which national figure—Cornel West or Ted Kennedy one day, John Kerry or Robert Reich another—had turned up in the Yard to encourage the protesters. Striding past the protesters and the politicians addressing them, on my way to a “Pizza and Politics” session with a journalist like Matt Bai or a governor like Howard Dean, I did not guess that the students poised to have the greatest near-term impact were not the social justice warriors at the protests […] but a few mostly apolitical geeks who were quietly at work in Kirkland House”

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Book:Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

Source: Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future