Pete Buttigieg Quotes

I believe over the long term he's going to have the money, and he's got the message, that this is going to be one of the finalists for the presidential campaign.

I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon.

I will run against anybody.

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

I have decided not to run for president.

If I believe your jobs plan, I'm going to vote for you.

And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.

I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee.

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

I am very fired up to run in New York.

It'll be my luck that the worst candidate will pick up 'Fly Over States' as his election song. Then I'll be forever linked to that guy, whoever he is!

I'm not running for president.

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

The Thinking Fella Votes McKellar!

A political campaign is a movement. It's built around a single candidate. It will evaporate when he or she gets elected.

The president can talk at a very high level of abstraction that is sometimes misinterpreted when it is applied in concrete situations.

Part of politics is redundancy. You’ve got to say the same thing over and over even if you get tired of it…not everyone has heard it.

He [Jimmy Carter] can't win the presidency. I don't even know him.

Carly Fiorina has campaigned hard in New Hampshire to earn support from voters.

I really was going to run for Congress.

If you are a speechwriter, you have to know what the person you're writing for thinks. A lot of foreign policy advisers are thinking, 'How can I get my proposal into this guy's speech?' I was just thinking, 'What does he want to say?'

Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.

I don't look like a normal congressional candidate.

As soon as you know that someone is running for office, it puts a distance between you and that person.

Anyone can run against me. I don't care.