Progressive Liberal Quotes

#1. It does strange things to you to realize that the conservative establishment is forcing you to be a progressive liberal fighter for universal rights.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others to fund every social program under the sun via majority rule.

Dave Brat

#3. The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.

Richard A. Epstein

#4. The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.

Richard A. Epstein

#5. A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Leonard Bernstein

#6. What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.

Criss Jami

#7. There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.

Allen West

#8. That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.

Richard A. Epstein

#9. I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word ...

George Clooney

#10. The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D.C., solution,

Jeb Bush

#11. We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives.

Nick Clegg

#12. Scandinavians are not only the happiest and most contented people in the world, but also the most peaceful, tolerant, egalitarian, progressive, prosperous, liberal, and technologically advanced.

Anonymous

#13. The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

Adam McKay

#14. I consider myself a pretty progressive person, and I think I have a track record that shows that. But I'm also not just going to do a policy because it's the liberal thing to do.

Julian Castro

#15. The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

Richard A. Epstein

#16. That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

Thomas Jefferson

#17. Seattle is Sweden! Extremely liberal, progressive, and very white, with a strong undercurrent of racism.

Sherman Alexie

#18. There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's best for you'. But really what they want is the control of your life.

Allen West

#19. Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Aristotle.

#20. As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#21. The power of consumer goods ... has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has emptied them of their meaning, and changed their nature.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#22. Being a liberal progressive has been demonized as anti-white or overly on the side of blacks. There's nothing that can be done about that; it's just where we are in the history of our perceptions.

Darryl Pinckney

#23. Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.

Marian Wright Edelman

#24. So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

Stephen L. Carter

#25. We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

Lionel Trilling

#26. A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible.

Anne Waldman

#27. How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

Marco Rubio

#28. But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters.

Stephen Harper

#29. I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.

Allen West

#30. We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing in the individual, his rights, and his enterprise, and rejecting the socialist panacea.

Robert Menzies

#31. Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisite nicety combines silly inability to understand the national needs and dishonest insintcerity in promising conflicting and impossible remedies.

Theodore Roosevelt

#32. A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

Ann Coulter