Quotes About Progressive Politics

#1. Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

Johann Lamont

#2. Feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.

Bell Hooks

#3. As Lasch understood, for progressive politics anti-moral transgression has always been a bargain with the devil, because the case for equality is essentially a moral one. Equally

Angela Nagle

#4. If you don't create a sense of order and stability, if people do not feel secure, then progressive politics is dead. That is a fact of history. The right has always emerged supreme when destabilisation and insecurity prevail.

David Blunkett

#5. We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate.

Ani DiFranco

#6. Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe in progressive politics and the beneficial role of government, rather than a detriment.

David Blunkett

#7. Too often in the post-9/11 world, when the time has come to translate the moral, and essentially progressive, roots of foreign policy idealism into plans for American action, liberals have said, 'Duck.

Richard Just

#8. 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

#9. You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

George Lakoff

#10. Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, not the progressive realignment of American foreign policy.

Simon Cottee

#11. It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

Pope Francis

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

Richard A. Epstein

#13. The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

Henry James Sumner Maine

#14. That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

Arnold Kling

#15. The answer to growing complexity in the social sphere is renewed efforts at participation by each one of us, or else a progressive decline of inert and unquestioning masses submitting to government by an elite which will have little regard for the ultimate interest of the common man.

Gordon W. Allport

#16. More often than not, I find identity politics to be defined narrowly in progressive circles. This can limit our work to build coalitions and solidarity across communities and movements because this leads us to simply replicate all that we want to eradicate in the world.

Daisy Hernandez

#17. The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

Manning Marable

#18. [Obamacare] has to be enforced because nobody wants it. This is the nature of progressive government they don't care if it's not good for you. It's good for them.

Greg Gutfeld

#19. Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under the dominion of the plunder league of the professional politicians who are controlled and sustained by the great beneficiaries of privilege and reaction.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Richard A. Epstein

#21. The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down.

Ben Elton

#22. 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

#23. The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

Al Franken

#24. 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

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

Richard A. Epstein

#26. There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

Paul Wellstone

#27. Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond dreams of some utopian future. Progressive people constantly fail to get this.

Tony Kushner

#28. Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

Jo Grimond

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

Aristotle.

#30. Progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle. It doesn't matter if you're a conservative stay at home mom, work at home mom, or work outside the home mom. If you're Right, the Left is gonna hate.

Michelle Malkin

#31. Politics is way cool, as long as it's progressive. Conservatives by nature hate politics and politicians.

Greg Gutfeld

#32. I like that Maersk is a first name. It's like a massive global corporation named Derek.

Rose George

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

Marian Wright Edelman

#34. Quotes from the Underground is a remarkable resource and must-read for writers, researchers, activists and indeed anyone who embraces progressive values and hopes to rescue politics from corporate control.

Joel Bakan

#35. There are no voice pipes or telegraphs, as Titanic had, and barely any brass, but so many beeps and screens that I wonder if ships will soon be able to drive themselves.

Rose George

#36. This idea that once you get into politics ... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.

Matt Gonzalez

#37. One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone.

Jeanette Winterson

#38. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Karl Marx