“I think the most dangerous thing we could do, ironically, is to try to play it safe.”— Pete Buttigieg, cbsnews.comTagged: danger, Playing It Safe
“I think that it's been difficult, even confusing, to figure out what our foreign policy is because Democrats became so absorbed in opposing whatever the Republicans were doing.”— Pete Buttigieg, cbsnews.comTagged: Partisanship, Democrats, Republicans
“Americans, as a general rule, tend to elect whoever appears to be the opposite of the president they've just had.”— Pete Buttigieg, cbsnews.comTagged: Americans, Presidential Cycles
“I think we will all be better off when we are in a world where we can no longer say that people are being held back by their race.”— Pete Buttigieg, cbsnews.comTagged: racism, Progress
“I believe that China is using technology for the perfection of dictatorship and that their fundamental economic and political model is a major challenge to the US.”— Pete Buttigieg, cbsnews.comTagged: China, Intellectual Theft, Dictatorship
“I think the moment we're in right now calls for something new.”— Pete Buttigieg, cbsnews.comTagged: new blood
“We're talking about foreign interference in American politics. And by the way, this isn't hypothetical. This isn't theoretical. We were attacked by a hostile foreign power that decided that they could damage America, destabilize America, by intervening in the election to help him win. And they did a…”— Pete Buttigieg, cbsnews.comTagged: foreign interference, American Politics, election meddling
“I talk a lot, for example, about freedom. I think freedom is something that, across my lifetime, has been talked about as though it were a conservative value. But it's an American value, and I don't think that you enjoy freedom if you're afraid to start a new business because leaving your old job me…”— Pete Buttigieg, cbsnews.comTagged: Freedom, healthcarte, Conservative
“I also come from the industrial Midwest, the exact part of the country where Democrats had trouble getting our message through in recent years, which is part of how we got the president that we have now. And I'm someone who's committed to taking on the flaws in our systems at a very basic level. Our…”— Pete Buttigieg, cbsnews.comTagged: Midweast, Democrats, Donald Trump