“I'm not sure anything makes you an outright good person or bad person ...” — Pete Buttigieg Quote

“I'm not sure anything makes you an outright good person or bad person - that we're all capable of doing good or bad things. And if you want to know how much good you can do, and how much hurt you can do, just ask somebody you love.”

“Mayors love lists when they say something good about their city and hate them when they don't.”

“If you're a white candidate, it is twice as important for you to be talking about racial inequity and not just describing the problem - which is fashionable in politics - but actually talking about what we're going to do about it and describing the outcomes we're trying to solve for.”

“When I was deployed, I could feel a full spectrum of American power keeping me safe. And yes, that was the armor on my vehicle; yes, it was the armor on my body; but it was also the armor of some level of American moral authority.”

“An election is supposed to be about our whole country - we can't just concentrate on those areas where people, for the most part, already agree with us.”

“People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.”

“Even when bad things happen, you always want to move forward.”

“When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.”

“The problem is that I've never been a player who complained or let people know how bad things were.”

“Bad things usually don't happen by themselves in Iraq.”

“There's so much positivity in the world and your day-to-day life that to go as far as to say that you hate something or you wish it didn't exist and all the bad things in the world happen to you and only you, it's a joke. It's not real to have that much hate in your heart.”