Pete Buttigieg Quotes

The values of life are most important.

I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

A society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.

Humility is a super-important factor in all of our lives, and I try to remind myself every evening in front of the mirror, 'Just calm down.'

I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

I want to be a good human being.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

Above all, there is Mother. She taught me how to love, how to have respect for other people.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

For too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things

If life only has the meaning you bring to it, we have the opportunity to bring rich meaning to our lives by the service we do for others.

Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.

Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God... Reverence to God and reverence for one's neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.