Pete Buttigieg Quotes

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

We don't want to live in the past; we want to go into the future.

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

As far as it growing, I believe it is always necessary to evolve. I am not one to rest on my laurels.

Progress often masquerades as trouble.

The most important thing is not stagnating, to keep improving.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

Anything is better than stagnation.

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

Change brings opportunity.