Political Quotes

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.

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Jun 12, 2026

Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices… It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country. We could have 13 seats matching the district structure of the federal judiciary.

reason.com
Oct 26, 2025

I don’t live in New York, but I think he has the capacity to be a great mayor.

nypost.com
Oct 26, 2025

I mean, Andrew Cuomo has disqualified himself in so many ways, including morally, and that’s just one of many reasons why I think so many New Yorkers are going to vote for Mamdani.

nypost.com
Sep 18, 2025

Politics is about the results we can get for people and not about these other things.

politico.com
Sep 18, 2025

should not have run, and if he had made that decision sooner, [Democrats] might have been better off.

politico.com
Sep 18, 2025

You just have to go to voters with what you think you can do for them.

politico.com
Sep 18, 2025

if they do the wrong thing, we will be here to hold them politically accountable.

nbcnews.com
Sep 18, 2025

I’m not talking about changing what’s inside of a machine. I’m not talking about changing a vote that went one way and making it look like it came another way. I’m talking about a form of cheating that is happening right out in the open.

nbcnews.com
Sep 18, 2025

They are being pressured to change the rules so that voters don’t have a say anymore. And they know that that is wrong.

nbcnews.com
Sep 18, 2025

They’re admitting it out loud that they don’t have to do that to manipulate the results of an election.

nbcnews.com
Sep 18, 2025

We are here because Indiana Republicans are being pressured by Washington Republicans to do something that they know in their hearts is wrong.

nbcnews.com
Sep 14, 2025

And now in front of us, we’re confronted with the decisions that come next. And that’s where we’ve got to focus.

nypost.com
Sep 14, 2025

But it literally was his decision. Nobody else was able to make that decision.

nypost.com
Sep 14, 2025

And if he had made that decision sooner, we might have been better off.

nypost.com
Aug 14, 2025

Netanyahu can't be the only voice, or kind of the only compass for what should happen in the U.S. Israel relationship.

msnbc.com
Aug 14, 2025

I think we need to insist that if American taxpayer funding is going to weaponry that is going to Israel, but that is not going to things that shock the conscience.

msnbc.com
Aug 14, 2025

I think that we, as Israel's strongest ally and friend, you put your arm around your friend when there's something like this going on, and talk about what we're prepared to do together.

msnbc.com
Aug 14, 2025

I think that's a profound question that arouses a lot of the biggest problems that have happened with Israel's survival, Israel's right to survival, in the diplomatic scene.

msnbc.com
Jul 10, 2025

When you get to the point where you don’t even want to do real weather forecasting, or you’re deleting science from, you know, government documents and websites, scouring them to make sure that you can’t even mention climate change, like…

huffpost.com
Jul 10, 2025

It’s never a good time to undercut weather forecasting and emergency response. Now’s an especially bad time to be doing that.

huffpost.com
Jul 10, 2025

It’s going to get paid for in a way that’s much, much more expensive for the health care system, but most importantly, it’s going to get paid for with people’s lives.

huffpost.com
May 30, 2025

We have to be encountering people who don’t think like us

nbcnews.com

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