"Greatness will come by looking forward - untethered from the politics of the past and anchored by our shared values - and by changing our nation's future."
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Pete Buttigieg, born on January 19, 1982, in South Bend, Indiana, has emerged as a significant figure in American politics. A graduate of Harvard University and a Rhodes Scholar, he served as the mayor of South Bend from 2012 to 2020, where he focused on revitalizing the city and fostering community engagement. His candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 marked him as the first openly gay candidate to gain national prominence in a major party. Today, he serves as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, continuing to shape the nation’s infrastructure policies and advocating for progressive change.
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"In local government, it's very clear to your customers - your citizens - whether or not you're delivering. Either that pothole gets filled in, or it doesn't. The results are very much on display, and that creates a very healthy pressure to innovate."
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"Safety and security are the most basic job of government. I understand that - both as a mayor who works every day to secure public safety and reduce crime, and also as someone who deployed in uniform to Afghanistan because I believed joining the military was part of my duty to help keep my country safe."
Pete Buttigieg"We need to intentionally invest in health, in home ownership, in entrepreneurship, in access to democracy, in economic empowerment. If we don't do these things, we shouldn't be surprised that racial inequality persists because inequalities compound."
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"I am not skilled enough or energetic enough to craft a persona. I just have to be who I am and hope people like it."
Pete Buttigieg"My understanding of my faith is that - through a Christian framework - part of what we are called to do is to lay down our own self-interests, after the model of divinity that comes into this world in the form of Christ and lays down his life. And in order to do that, you have to care about something or someone more than yourself."
Pete Buttigieg"'Freedom' means a lot to conservatives, but they have such a narrow sense of what it means. They think a lot about freedom from - freedom from government, freedom from regulation - and precious little about freedom to. Freedom to is absolutely something that has to be safeguarded by good government, just as it could be impaired by bad government."
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