Sean Penn Quotes

John Kerry has promised to take this country back from the wealthy. Who better than the guy worth $700 million to take the country back? See, he knows how the wealthy think. He can spy on them at his country club, at his place in Palm Beach, at his house in the Hamptons. He's like a mole for the working man.

I bring to the table core Democratic values and can articulate them very strongly. I'm not someone who tries to claim the middle.

I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings.

I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.

I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.

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.

I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

I'm a liberal Democrat, and I state that proudly.

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

Progressive and liberal are Satan's pet words.

The middle class took the taxpayers money and benefits to go to school and get rich and now they don’t want to pay the taxes to pay for the poor of the next generation to have the same opportunity.

You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed while people at the top and people with influence in government seem always to be doing better.

People finally understood that the role of the social-democratic party rests on its conscious leadership of the mass struggle against the existing society, a struggle that must reckon with the vital, necessary conditions of capitalist society.

I am a lifelong Democrat.

I came out of the womb into the Labour movement.

I'd actually call myself pretty much a liberal. A progressive liberal. Because I do think that government is there to be a provider of services for people who cannot provide for themselves.

I'm an Obama chick.

I am a social liberal.

I'm a liberal - and I'm not running from that word!