“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.” PoliticsTrustContradictionParanoiaConspiracy Theories Book:Trust: America's Best Chance Source: Trust: America's Best Chance
“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.” DeathPoliticsDyingKillingDeath And DyingDieDeath PenaltyKill 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.” HumanityEvilPoliticsMoralityGoodnessGood And Evil Author:Pete Buttigieg
“The principles that will guide my campaign are simple enough to fit on a bumper sticker: freedom, security, and democracy.” PoliticsFreedomDemocracySecurityCampaigns Author:Pete Buttigieg
“Part of how you can win and deserve to win is to know what’s worth more to you than winning.” PoliticsLeadershipCampaigns 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.” PoliticsPete Buttigieg Author:Pete Buttigieg