Thread by @GSarafan

Mayor Pete Buttigieg: “I get that I’m the young guy in the conversation, but I would say experience is what qualifies me to have a seat at this table”

“I know it’s more traditional to maybe come from Congress, to have a background in Washington. But I would also argue that we would be well served if Washington started to look more like our best run cities and towns rather than the other way around.”

“I have more years of govt experience under my belt than the president. I also have more years of executive government experience than the vice president, and more military experience than anybody to walk into that office on day once since George H W Bush”

“At risk of sounding a little simplistic, one thing I believe is that in an American Presidential election, the person who gets the most votes ought to be the person who wins.” @PeteButtigieg #PeteforAmerica

Mayor @PeteButtigieg: "We've got to end the war on trans Americans and we need a federal equality act that would say that you cannot be fired just because of who you are or just because you love." #PeteForAmerica

Q: "[Should] Congress ... begin impeachment proceedings against [Trump]?"

#PeteButtigieg: "I would like to see this president and the style of politics that he represents sent off through the electoral process, decisively defeated at the ballot box."

Question: "Do you think Vice Pres. Pence would be a better or worse president than President Trump?"

Mayor @PeteButtigieg: "Ugh. Does it have to be between those two?" #PeteForAmerica

Mayor @PeteButtigieg: "I believe we do need to move in the direction of a Medicare for all system." #PeteForAmerica

"When you have had the experience of writing a letter, putting it an envelope marked 'just in case,' and putting it where you know your family can find it, you have a sense of the gravity and the weight of the decisions that are made in the White House."

.@PeteButtigieg: "If we don't act aggressively and immediately on climate, it's not going to be a pretty picture...This timetable isn't being set in Congress. It's being set by reality. It's being set by science. And it's going to hit."

.@PeteButtigieg: "This moment could be the only moment over the last 100 years or the next 100 years, when it's appropriate for someone like me to be in this conversation. But I'll tell you, with that moment shaping up, I'm not going to miss that moment."

.@PeteButtigieg on #SCOTUS: "What I think we need to do it some kind of structural reform that makes the court less political. We can't go on like this where every time there's a vacancy, there's this apocalyptic ideological battle."