Top 1191 Progressive Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.

On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]

There are 11 states in the United States that in the last 50 years instituted an income tax. So I looked at each of those 11 states over the last 50 years, and I took their current economic metrics and their metrics for the five years before they put in the progressive income tax... Every single state that introduced a progressive income tax has declined as an overall share of the U.S. economy.

I come from generations of progressive, atheist Jews.

Progressive rock was happening.

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.

'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.

I am proud to be a progressive.

I don't even know what progressive is anymore, to be honest!

There should be complete freedom of thought for a progressive society.

Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions.

My mother was progressive in her thinking.

I think there's always been progressive R&B music.

Progressive policies are harming the Black community.

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

Change is constant in a progressive country.

Progressive policies lead to a regressive society.

I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.

My progressive record is unmatched.

I'm progressive, and I'm practical.

Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

I dont believe in labels. I want to do the best I can, all the time. I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same time. I want to be prudent without having my mind closed to anything that is new or different. I have often said that I was proud that I was a free man first and an American second, and a public servant third and a Democrat fourth, in that order, and I guess as a Democrat, if I had to takeplace a label on myself, I would want to be a progressive who is prudent.

I'm a progressive who likes to get things done.

I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.

I am not the progressive Koch brother.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

I'm a Palestinian-Muslim, but I'm also a progressive.

Progressive politics in America is an organizational disaster.

If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.

It's not only progressives who listen to progressive radio.

Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.

Stiffening the spine of progressive members of Congress is crucial.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.

I'm a progressive.

I consider myself a progressive, so my answer would be that we need to be progressive. For some reason the people in power in Mississippi still seem to be invested in these very American myths."The individual is alone." "We pull ourselves up by our bootstraps." "We create success for ourselves, and if we work hard enough then we will succeed and have success beyond our wildest dreams." I think that we need to do away with that kind of thinking and be more aware of history and how the history of this place bears in the present and how it affects people.

When you dig down, people are pretty progressive, by and large. I guess, I've said it many times - that a lot of people say we're a conservative country, that people are conservative. And my response to that is, yes, that's true, and you know what the people want to conserve most? The progressive traditions of our country - freedom of speech, and of the press and of assembly. Freedom to dissent. The freedom to practice your own religion or not practice religion as you see fit. Yes, we're conservative! We want to conserve those.

The NBA man, we have always been progressive.

I support a progressive state income tax.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

You can't be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.

In Russia, Vladimir Putin is viewed as a progressive Democrat.

Can you be a progressive if you're anti-immigrant but pro-choice? No!

I'm conservative on some issues. I'm progressive on most.

I am a progressive Eurosceptic. I supported Leave.

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.

I campaigned for [Barack] Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to help get the word out. It was such a huge, spirited campaign, and so positive. But you travel around to cities in the U.S. now and there's just this hopelessness that has set in. It makes it hard to understand why it seems so impossible to make any kind of progressive change with an administration that is seemingly progressive, or why we keep encountering such political roadblocks to change.

If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Business can be a source of progressive change.

My commitment to the Bible [is my] source of progressive values.