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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
Mar 31, 2024

The pitch is, your district could be next.

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Mar 31, 2024

I sincerely don't know what – whether I will run for elected office of any kind again.

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Mar 31, 2024

This has historically been bipartisan, and I'm not just reaching back to bygone eras.

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Mar 26, 2024

But he said that is going to be a priority for the Biden administration.

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Mar 25, 2024

This is a unique circumstance. I do not know of a bridge that has been constructed to withstand a direct impact from a vessel of this size.

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Nov 30, 2023

He seems fixated on it. And it's really troubling for millions of Americans, including me and my husband. And you know, this is, again, not just some fringe, radical member of Congress, although I'd argue these positions are certainly…

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Nov 30, 2023

Pretty hard to believe. I mean, look, I have often been called to write a blurb for a book. He didn't just do that. He did just put a quote on the back of it. He wrote a foreword that is in the book, then had this guy on his podcast, and…

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Nov 30, 2023

It's 2023. I guess 2022 when the book came out. We're still talking about people this way based on who they are, and who they love? America, most of America at least has moved on from this kind of thing.

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Nov 30, 2023

It seems like they just can't think of anything else, right? There's no discussion of what we actually did.

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Nov 2, 2023

I will admit, it's a little bit difficult, driving the family mini van to drop our kids off day care, passing the dome of the Capitol, knowing that the speaker at the House sitting under the dome doesn't even think our family ought to…

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Nov 2, 2023

I will admit it's a little bit difficult, driving the family minivan to drop our kids off at daycare, passing the dome of the Capitol knowing that the Speaker of the House sitting under that dome who doesn't even think our family ought to…

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Sep 23, 2023

Winning the election was the beginning, not the end, of President Biden's achievements.

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Sep 23, 2023

We're making sure that that is a made in America EV revolution.

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Sep 23, 2023

The economy needs to grow from the bottom up and the middle out, not the top down.

nbcnews.com
Sep 23, 2023

What the president said is that when you have record profits in this industry, there ought to be record pay and record benefits going to the workers who are creating that value.

nbcnews.com
Sep 23, 2023

President Biden is proud to be the most unapologetically pro-worker, pro-union president we've had.

nbcnews.com
Sep 23, 2023

This is no way to run the government in the most powerful nation on earth.

nbcnews.com
Sep 19, 2023

Not only is that false; that is an insult to the qualifications of every air traffic controller.

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Sep 19, 2023

That is nonsense, Representative.

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Sep 19, 2023

I think it's a great question. And maybe another area it turns out we have something in common is a belief that we ought to be paying more attention to materials, the sourcing of pavement, the durability of pavement.

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Sep 19, 2023

We care a great deal about community input and, yes, we believe that's an important consideration in these noise discussions.

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Sep 19, 2023

I hope that is an indication that we can get you on the record in favor of the Railway Safety Act.

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Sep 19, 2023

I think we are actually largely on the same page here.

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