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Progressive policies lead to a regressive society. -- Ilana Mercer
Progressive rock was happening. -- Tony Orlando
Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection. -- Mark Twain
Progressive policies are harming the Black community. -- Deneen Borelli
Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy. -- Keith Ellison
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. -- Henry George
[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive] -- Thurgood Marshall
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. -- Earl Nightingale
Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment. -- Ron Brackin
Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat -- Tom DeLay
Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause. -- Johann Lamont
I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist -- Victoria Jackson
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record -- Johnny Winter
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record. -- Johnny Winter
Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment. -- Catherine Austin Fitts
Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live. -- Angela Davis
The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty. -- John C. Calhoun
Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate. -- Bernie Sanders
Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class. -- Keith Ellison
Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone. -- Jakob Nielsen
For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role. -- Kim Campbell
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. -- Jane Addams
Progressive Consequentialsm requires us to make the world better but we are under no obligation to bring about the best possible world. -- Dale Jamieson
I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives. -- Will Ferrell
I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach. -- John Frusciante
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order. -- Christopher Lasch
I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. It's called the Congressional Progressive Caucus. -- Allen West
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Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away -- Ludwig von Mises
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
Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. [Progressive] -- Hugo Black
From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music. -- Tony Levin
You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more. -- Timothy Noah
The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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
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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
Even before winning its majority, Harper's Republican-styl e Conservative party - well to the right Canada's traditional Progressive Conservative Party - managed to win minority governments with less than 40 per cent of the popular vote. -- Linda McQuaig
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. -- C. S. Lewis
In the 1999 resolution regarding Taiwan's future passed by the Democratic Progressive Party, it is stated very clearly that any change to the status quo of Taiwan must be decided by the people of Taiwan through referenda. -- Chen Shui-bian
Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you. -- Rick Perry
I try to produce whatever I like, it doesn't really matter what it is. It could be Progressive, it could be deeper, it doesn't matter to me. I produce whatever I like and I hope people enjoy it. -- Nicky Romero
Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and even the armed forces to vaccinate at will, and, if necessary, at gunpoint. -- Michael Specter
What, after all, is the narrative of the American Dream? It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era. -- Naomi Wolf
I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal. -- John Burns
He has made us the master organizers of the world . . . to overwhelm the forces of reaction throught the earth . . . . This is the divine mission of America . . . . We are trustees of the world's progress, guardians of its righteous peace. [Progressive] -- Albert J. Beveridge
I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties. -- Peter MacKay
What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era. -- Naomi Wolf
In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness. -- Carl Jung
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. -- Salvador Dali
A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous. -- H. L. Mencken
One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country that are the envy of the world and today are the treasure of an entire nation. Why not a similar, global vision for our generation? -- Eban Goodstein
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -- Will Durant
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde
I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word... -- George Clooney
Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both. -- Abraham Lincoln
A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. -- Stewart Udall
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change. -- Charles Darwin
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. -- Paul Wellstone
Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world. -- E. O. Wilson
The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives. -- Robert Reich
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. -- Hélder Câmara
Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it. -- Mark Twain
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success. -- Jim Hightower
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. -- Paul Gauguin
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. -- Gloria Steinem
Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.' -- Colin Powell
On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world. -- Wim Wenders
Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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
The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist -- Danny Glover
Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty. -- Henry Demarest Lloyd
I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's. -- Bart Stupak
The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment. -- Ralph Adams Cram
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. -- George Lakoff
As dogs are to bark, some people are to mock. -- Junaid e Mustafa
What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future. -- Criss Jami
The habitual use of profanity is not progressive, just unimaginative. -- Ron Brackin
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world. -- George Soros
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. -- Aristotle
The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets. -- Richard A. Epstein
Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion. -- Ryan Lilly
Never fight any progressive moves unless you can move faster to achieve something different. -- Ferdinard S. Lawson
Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through contribution. -- Capies Pitts
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. -- Theodore Roosevelt
If you can't set a better example for progress, don't show disapproval against the worse tradition! -- Israelmore Ayivor
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -- Will Durant
I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns. -- Jeff Bingaman
A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Success is like a locked door, to open and get it through, you need to create your own key. -- Zeeshan Ahmed
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets. -- Richard Allen Epstein
Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests. -- Louis Farrakhan
That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services. -- Richard A. Epstein
The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down. -- Ben Elton
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
I get the real moronic progressive economic plan now. The more we spend the richer we are. How brilliant... Go figure these idiots. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people. -- Cornel West
Wishes and wants do not transform a person; actions and reactions do so! Show the world your plans by the actions you take progressively and consistently. -- Israelmore Ayivor
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
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
Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas. -- Erica Jong
Hopelessness is advance failure in a disguised envelope. People are crippled to have bed-ridden dreams just because they don't believe they can take progressive steps with those dreams. -- Israelmore Ayivor
If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world. -- Dan Kildee
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
Respect every soul on this SOILIf you make them toil, there blood will BOILPrepare to witness the fury of the FRAILNew Phoenix will emerge as you life my VEIL!!!" Priyanka Sahi -- TheRisingHuman
Learn new things. Do progressive research into what you do and find out how others outside your quarters are doing it. Dare to be excellent. Average brands easily go into extinction soonest. -- Israelmore Ayivor
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. -- Herbert Croly
Every Nigerian must begin to raise their voice against our societal failures and call them as such at every juncture. In this way we could all bring about a modern, progressive and civilized society. -- Sunday Adelaja
Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news. -- Bernie Sanders

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