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Quotes About Progressive

We recognise the need for government to provide a clear and stable regulatory framework so as to release the investment power of business in order to deliver progressive public policy.
~ Barry Gardiner
I think 'The Stage' is kind of left field.
~ M. Shadows
Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
~ Gary Kemp
If someone wants to do a carbon fee and someone else wants to do a cap on emissions or a renewable portfolio standard, we don't start labeling each other as more or less progressive.
~ Brian Schatz
People claim to be progressive by celebrating curvy bodies - but the standards for those hourglass shapes are equally rigid. They mask that with body positivity - but what about unconventionally attractive bodies?
~ Barbie Ferreira
In the so-called age of girl power, we have failed to cut loose our most regressive standards of female success - like pleasing others and looking sexy - and to replace them with something more progressive - like valuing intelligence and hard work.
~ Rachel Simmons
It is my preference that the Democratic Party leads us forward in a way that is about standing up to special interests, in a way that advances campaign finance reform, in a way that fights for meaningful prescription drug reform.
~ Katie Porter
From a personal standpoint I really like that Bernie Sanders is making so much noise.
~ Paul F. Tompkins
I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically, there is a desire to get at that person. But I think the stands I have taken are totally consistent with a person who is looking at things realistically, factually.
~ Eric Holder
Look, a conservative feminist stands for increasing responsibility and increasing personal freedom.
~ Margaret Hoover
The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.
~ Crystal Eastman
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
listened instead to the left-wing, anti-biblical teachings of Dr. Benjamin Spock in the '50s.
~ Terry James
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
~ Thomas Cochrane
'Network' was formidable in the sense that I was playing a strong, avant-garde woman.
~ Faye Dunaway
I think a lot of the new age thinking, if you want to call it that, analytics, you have to be open to it.
~ Buster Posey
I think there are a few brands like Nike and Patagonia which are quite progressively minded.
~ Ma Jun
I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.
~ Marlo Thomas
I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.
~ James Vincent McMorrow
We had no interest in making a traditional sports movie.
~ Ryan Fleck