“Most people have trouble pronouncing my name, so they just call me 'Ma...” — Pete Buttigieg Quote

“Most people have trouble pronouncing my name, so they just call me 'Mayor Pete.'”

“Our right to practice our faith freely is respected up to the point where doing so involves harming others.”

“My understanding of my faith is that - through a Christian framework - part of what we are called to do is to lay down our own self-interests, after the model of divinity that comes into this world in the form of Christ and lays down his life. And in order to do that, you have to care about something or someone more than yourself.”

“I am not skilled enough or energetic enough to craft a persona. I just have to be who I am and hope people like it.”

“I met my husband through an app that talks to social-networking sites, and that's how we were sort of suggested to each other, and it turned out to be a great match.”

“I don't have a problem with enhanced border security, perhaps to include fencing. I think the mistake is believing that border security is as simple as just putting up a wall from sea to shining sea.”

“Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.”

“You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.”

“Having been a mayor, we prioritized based on where we want our city and our country to go.”

“I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws.”

“I lost my first mayor's race. I lost the primary. But we came back and won that. So I know you've got to play to win, but you can't be afraid to lose.”

“Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision.”