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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.

Quotes by year · 2017–2026526 total · peak 2021 (140)
2017: 11 quotes2019: 22 quotes2020: 22 quotes2021: 140 quotes2022: 74 quotes2023: 76 quotes2024: 76 quotes2025: 45 quotes2026: 60 quotes
Feb 24, 2025

Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid.

newsweek.com
Feb 18, 2025

The era of tolerating poor treatment of airline passengers with disabilities is over.

motherjones.com
Feb 17, 2025

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

newsweek.com
Feb 16, 2025

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

nbcnews.com
Feb 13, 2025

I have a lot of humility about having only moved to Michigan a few years ago, although, of course, I did grow up in the neighborhood.

newsweek.com
Dec 3, 2024

I think that should be something that will last, but will require constant tending.

nytimes.com
Dec 3, 2024

You shouldn’t have to have frequent flier status to sit next to your kids.

nytimes.com
Dec 3, 2024

I think any change to that would need to come with some kind of justification, and any change to a rule has to go through a process.

nytimes.com
Dec 3, 2024

We want airlines to succeed. We just want them to succeed by doing the right thing.

nytimes.com
Dec 3, 2024

I think anyone who says that the last few years are an overreach is out of touch with his customers.

nytimes.com
Dec 3, 2024

I’ll leave it to others to grade my performance, but we’ve been able to deliver the most transformative set of infrastructure investments in my lifetime.

nytimes.com
Dec 3, 2024

The point of these fines is to make sure that they are less necessary in the future.

nytimes.com
Oct 22, 2024

I think the bigger question here is, is this somebody who's fit to be president?

transcripts.cnn.com
Oct 22, 2024

He's also somebody who has taken care to stay out of the doings of the Justice Department because that's the right thing to do and to have no involvement in those kind of criminal justice processes.

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Oct 22, 2024

There has never been a case, at least that I can think of, of this many Republicans saying vote for the Democrat.

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Oct 22, 2024

The significance of it is that, clearly, he does not want to have to compete with her in a debate and he does not want to have to explain in a Town Hall environment his unpopular positions.

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Sep 14, 2024

Donald Trump is for tax cuts for the rich and for tariffs that economists estimate will add about $4,000 a year to the cost for American families. She believes in making the wealthy pay their fair share.

nbcnews.com
Sep 14, 2024

Let's remember, we wouldn't be here in this particular situation if Donald Trump hadn't intervened to sabotage a bipartisan deal that was worked out, with Republicans and Democrats, on what to do with the border.

nbcnews.com
Sep 14, 2024

Donald Trump and JD Vance cannot afford for this campaign to be about things like how Donald Trump eliminated the right to choose and that continues to leave the door open to signing a national abortion ban.

nbcnews.com
Aug 18, 2024

It's just one more reminder of why he is unfit to be commander-in-chief.

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Aug 18, 2024

You're not going to see that here. You're going to see respect for anybody who is peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights.

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Aug 18, 2024

But importantly, also been very focused on outreach to those who are taking to the streets because of the passion they feel about what has always been one of the most ferociously difficult and complex issues in the world.

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Aug 18, 2024

I'm excited and honored to have that opportunity to speak about what our politics will be like or could be like, how much better it will be when and if America chooses Kamala Harris and Tim Walz versus a rerun of the Donald Trump show.

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