Progressive Quotes

Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

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

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

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.

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

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.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.

Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.

This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.