Buttigieg: "I think a lot about intergenerational justice. Short-term versus long-term helps to explain a lot of the policy disagreements that happen between the parties, and I would argue that in most ways, we are the party with more long-term thinking."

Buttigieg: "The world is changing, but it is not changing on its own."

Buttigieg: "I kept up top grades, and by senior year, a flow of mailed college recruiting brochures accumulated into an avalanche on our dining room table."

Buttigieg: "I am a Democrat because I believe in protecting freedom, fairness, families, and the future."

Buttigieg: "In local government, it's very clear to your customers - your citizens - whether or not you're delivering. Either that pothole gets filled in, or it doesn't. The results are very much on display, and that creates a very healthy pressure to innovate."

Buttigieg: "'Freedom' means a lot to conservatives, but they have such a narrow sense of what it means. They think a lot about freedom from - freedom from government, freedom from regulation - and precious little about freedom to. Freedom to is absolutely something that has to be safeguarded by good government, just as it could be impaired by bad government."

Buttigieg: "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."

Buttigieg: "Being the mayor of your hometown is the best job in America, partly because it's relatively nonpartisan - we focus on results, not ideology."

Buttigieg: "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."

Buttigieg: "When people are economically or socially dislocated, they are always more vulnerable to being radicalized."

Buttigieg: "Experiences with friends or family members coming out have helped millions of Americans to see past stereotypes and better understand what being gay is - and is not."

Buttigieg: "The background of a mayor of a city of any size is a background of somebody who on one hand is an executive and on the other hand is very close to the ground."

Buttigieg: "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."

Buttigieg: "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."

Buttigieg: "Physically robust infrastructure is not enough if it fails to foster a healthy community; ultimately, all infrastructure is social."

Buttigieg: "We can't look for greatness in the past."

Buttigieg: "What's worse: a president who is very faithful to an ideology that you find extreme, or a president who is very cynical and appears to have no ideology at all? Neither one of those things is great."

Buttigieg: "You're not free if you can't sue a financial institution that gets caught ripping you off."

Buttigieg: "Donald Trump got elected because, in his twisted way, he pointed out the huge troubles in our economy and our democracy."

Buttigieg: "'Palaces for the People' reads more like a succession of case studies than a comprehensive account of what social infrastructure is, so those looking for a theoretical framework may be disappointed."

Buttigieg: "I think people in our party tie themselves up in pretzels trying to be more electable."

Buttigieg: "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."

Buttigieg: "By high school, I had traded my oversized, thick glasses for contact lenses, but my eyesight was getting worse every year, smothering my childhood aspiration of becoming an astronaut or, at least, a pilot."

Buttigieg: "Military service might sound like a totally different environment, but every experience you fall back on later, it makes you smarter. Why wouldn't that be true of the military, too?"

Buttigieg: "We need to intentionally invest in health, in home ownership, in entrepreneurship, in access to democracy, in economic empowerment. If we don't do these things, we shouldn't be surprised that racial inequality persists because inequalities compound."

Buttigieg: "It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them."

Buttigieg: "Mayors love lists when they say something good about their city and hate them when they don't."

Buttigieg: "The death penalty has been one of many examples where racial discrimination has played out. You can see it in the simple fact that someone convicted of the same crime is more likely to face the death penalty if they are black."

Buttigieg: "In 'Palaces for the People,' Eric Klinenberg offers a new perspective on what people and places have to do with each other, by looking at the social side of our physical spaces."

Buttigieg: "We've got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people."

Buttigieg: "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."

Buttigieg: "I'm proud of who I am. I am proud of my husband and our marriage."