Pete Buttigieg Quotes

It is not enough to look backwards with pride, justified as that pride may be. We must look forward with hope and confidence, too.

We can no longer dwell on the divisive politics of the past but must focus on Georgia's bright and promising future.

Together with President Obama, we are moving America forward, not back.

I think the important thing now is to have a celebration and then with determination move into our common, shared, different future.

So moderates of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our pessimism. Either we make the future bury the past, or the bad guys will ensure that the past buries the future.

Together we are building a new Mexico.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

The youth is the hope of our future.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.

I think that's a very important part of what we need in this country, is that sense that we have lived through so many stages and that we are entering into a new stage where we could create something completely different.

America Was Promises

We must not continue to dwell in the past and we must resolve to do the right and march along with the rest of the world.

Person after person has said to me in these last few days that this new world we face terrifies them. I can understand how that feeling would arise unless one believes that men are capable of greatness beyond their past achievements.... The time now calls for mankind as a whole to rise to great heights. We must have faith or we die.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

My government's aim for Fiji is not to return to where we once were but to journey forward together to a place we have not yet been

… we should not indulge in looking backwards with envy to the past, but to keep our eyes ahead of us with hope for the future.

I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.

We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.

Now, being one who lived in the era of Obama, there are so many markers of improvement made. It's hard to be mindful of that, in the same way you're going, 'Oh everything's cool now!' and it isn't. But I try to be mindful of how much of an improvement there has been because that gives hope. You need hope. I need hope!

America is not going to side with the people that think our best days are behind us. It's not going to side with the people that think we pit people against each other, even if they believe at their core - which I think some of these people do - that, you know, ultimately Trump would make things better.

I want to talk more about the future than the past.