Progressive Social Policy Quotes

#1. My life closed twice before its close

Emily Dickinson

#2. The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

James Surowiecki

#3. I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.

Miranda Otto

#4. Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. The pros-and-cons approach is familiar. It is commonsensical. And it is also profoundly flawed.

Chip Heath

#6. I'm a terrible procrastinator.

Damien Chazelle

#7. Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people
like God loves them

Bill Hybels

#8. People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

Serj Tankian

#9. Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life.

Kiana Tom

#10. 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

#11. I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.

Harry Connick Jr.

#12. I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it

John Berger

#14. My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

Marilyn Manson

#15. Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#16. Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of the revolutionary reformers have no significance; for in a vortex of chaos, only force and appetite signify.

Russell Kirk

#17. Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

Jim DeMint