Addressing climate change will create high-quality jobs throughout our economy.
Pete Buttigieg
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Pete Buttigieg is an American politician and attorney currently serving as the United States Secretary of Transportation, a position he has held since February 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Buttigieg previously served as the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020. During his tenure as mayor, he focused on urban revitalization, infrastructure improvements, and economic development, gaining national attention for his leadership style and innovative policies.
If you can't take for granted that you can get a glass of clean, safe drinking water out of the tap when you are starting your day, that your family is going to be safe, then that wrecks so many other things in your life.
If we lose our national maritime industry, it might not return and the consequences would be devastating.
You should not have to own a car to prosper in this country, no matter what kind of community you are living in.
Ultimately, there is no reason America shouldn't be capable of powering every electric vehicle that we produce.
What I'll say is these allegations are really disturbing. They are serious and they need to be investigated as they are. And that investigation, of course, is underway.
We have a chance to make investments that expand opportunity instead of cutting people off from opportunity, that build and enrich neighborhoods instead of breaking them up.
We’ve got to make sure that we support this vitally important sector in our country.
I want the U.S. to be leading the world when it comes to access to high speed rail, and I think we have a real opportunity to do that, especially with the bipartisan appetite for real investments that we have before us this year.
The president won our primary and the election, and that will be the vision that goes forward.
The president’s commitment to create a half million charging stations across the country I think is a very important piece of that.
Look, why would we want social, environmental or economic or racial injustice to be attached to our transportation policy? This is a chance to get it right.
Absolutely. I thought that was something that everybody could get on board with.
My hope is that having that perspective will help me make sure that the department is user-friendly to the many communities that we really need to make sure that we’re supporting.
My view this opportunity is also shaped by being the youngest member so far named to this cabinet and the first millennial invited to a seat at that table. I'm also mindful that the eyes of history are on this appointment, knowing that…
It should be unthinkable that the American president would resort to undermining the American election system just because he thinks he's going to lose.
Look, this is the chaos presidency and it almost sounds like he's rooting for chaos or for violence.
I think my views haven't changed. We have got to continue finding ways to depoliticize the court.
Here, it is just raw, naked power politics, from people who don't care about how everybody's doing out here in our communities. And it's unconscionable.





