But for others, work can only be meaningful if its fundamental purpose is in things that would matter even if no one would pay you to care about them. - Pete Buttigieg

The purpose of the presidency is not the glorification of the president. It is the unification of the American people.

At one point I learned that when I'd told them my college coursework in Arabic might make me a good intelligence officer, they had recorded that my minor at Harvard had been in aerobics.

The top priority of the terrorist — even more important than killing you — is to make himself your top priority. This is why protecting ourselves from terrorist violence is not enough to defeat terrorism, especially if we try to achieve safety in ways that elevate the importance of terrorists and wind up publicizing their causes.