“I think my understanding of why politics matters is different. It’s more rooted in everyday life. Part of that’s a mayor’s orientation. Part of it’s my Midwestern orientation. Part of it’s my personal story as somebody who saw, for example, the Afghanistan War, not just in terms of the theoretical d…”— Pete Buttigieg, newyorker.com
“Well, I arrived knowing we were there because we’d been attacked. It was very different from the Iraq conflict in that sense. But, also, while I was there, it was increasingly difficult to understand what our goal was. And the thing that has made me feel a greater and greater sense of urgency about…”— Pete Buttigieg, newyorker.com