“The core principle for me is not whether or not the government is your health-insurance provider. The core principle for me is that you get covered one way or the other. That’s what Medicare for All Who Want It entails.”
— Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg Talks Impeachment, Health Care, and the Political Spectrum
“One of the Afghans I got to know best—his job was to clean this building that I worked in some of the time. And I was attempting to learn the language of Dari. He would teach me these Afghan sayings—there’s an amazing, rich tradition of proverbs in Afghanistan. One of them that I always think of is…”
— Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg Talks Impeachment, Health Care, and the Political Spectrum
“There’s going to be an investigation. There’s going to be testimony. There’s going to be records. But, for all the things that might emerge then, he confessed on television to the abuse of power. So there’s this central fact that Congress has to weigh in on: whether this is or is not a high crime. F…”
— Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg Talks Impeachment, Health Care, and the Political Spectrum
“Well, the day that Nixon resigned, I’m told, he had about twenty-five per cent of the country with him. So I think we can assume that there’s at least twenty-five per cent that you’re just not going to reach. That still leaves an awful lot of people.”
— Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg Talks Impeachment, Health Care, and the Political Spectrum
“Who among the candidates for President can lead us in a world where we’re going to have to solve these big policy problems that didn’t take a break during impeachment, and somehow unify the American people? And, of course, I’m running to be that President, because we need somebody capable of turning…”
— Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg Talks Impeachment, Health Care, and the Political Spectrum
“I always assumed that I would spend the perimenopausal years of my life living alone in an unfurnished studio apartment, shouting incorrect Jeopardy! answers at my ancient television set and keeping company with none but a feral cat.”
— Samantha Irby, The Cut, I Planned On Dying Alone. Then I realized how comfortable love could be.