I'm proud of who I am. I am proud of my husband and our marriage.
— Pete Buttigieg
Our right to practice our faith freely is respected up to the point where doing so involves harming others.
Let's be under no illusions: There are attacks on, for example, transgender Americans from the Oval Office, picking on troops - people willing to lay down their lives for this country - not to mention teenagers in our high schools. So we've got to end the war on trans Americans.
If somebody is pointing out that there are advantages - many of them unfair - that go along with being male in our society and in our politics, then I completely agree.
You're not free if you can't start a small business because you fear losing your health care, and you're certainly not free if a male boss or politician prevents you from making decisions about your own reproductive health.
Being attentive to the things that add meaning to our lives alongside politics will help us inform our politics with the values that really do make America great.
Like anyone who follows politics, I am sometimes mesmerized by the twisted and relentless drama playing out in Washington. But I also know about the price of distraction - the consequences of our attention being diverted from how politics affects daily life.
Safety and security are the most basic job of government. I understand that - both as a mayor who works every day to secure public safety and reduce crime, and also as someone who deployed in uniform to Afghanistan because I believed joining the military was part of my duty to help keep my country safe.
There's this romantic idea that's built up around war. But the pragmatic view is there are tons of people of my generation who have lost their lives, lost their marriages, or lost their health as a consequence of being sent to wars which could have been avoided.
A message is something that makes sense no matter who you're running against.
I hope that teachings about inclusion and love win out over what I personally consider to be a handful of scriptures that reflect the moral expectations of the era in which they were recorded.
That really important freedom in my life, the freedom to marry, came about because of choices that were made by policymakers who had power over me and millions of others.
Tearing apart a community, a business, and a family will make America worse off, every time.
You're not free if you can't marry the person you love because a county clerk is imposing his or her interpretation of religion on you.
Our neighborhoods are safer when there is trust between communities and the police who are in charge of protecting them.
As Democrats and progressives look to the future, we should remember our most essential values.
Greatness will come by looking forward - untethered from the politics of the past and anchored by our shared values - and by changing our nation's future.
The greatest nation in the world should not have much to fear from a family, especially children, fleeing violence. More importantly, children fleeing violence ought to have nothing to fear from the greatest country in the world.
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.
We've got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people.
You're not free if you can't sue a financial institution that gets caught ripping you off.
Physically robust infrastructure is not enough if it fails to foster a healthy community; ultimately, all infrastructure is social.
I am a Democrat because I believe in protecting freedom, fairness, families, and the future.
Building a wall won't solve our border security challenges.
Being gay isn't something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.
