Gretchen Whitmer Quotes

I'm a progressive.

I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.

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

I believe there are millions of people across the country who are crying out for someone to stand up for liberal values.

I am certainly a liberal.

I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.

I am a social liberal.

In San Francisco, we strive to be a beacon of progressivism for the rest of the country and the world, whether it is leading the way on gay marriage, immigrants rights, or combating climate change.

Australians want progression, Australians want equal rights, they want safer, more compassionate, more harmonious communities, and we're not allowing it to progress in that way. It's very disappointing, knowing Tony Abbott's conservative views, he's clearly not the person to be leading Australia in the present or the future.

We want to have a conversation about what does it mean to be liberal in the 21st century and how do we go about creating that kind of a society.

Yes, I'm proud to be a liberal.

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.

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

They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week.

I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.'

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

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.

As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.

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

Nashville is a boys' club of redneck conservative ideas. But they're ready to embrace gay people. I never felt for one second that someone was judging me. Some people are like, 'Oh, I love gay people' in that 'I have lots of black friends' kind of way. It's awkward, but you have to appreciate that they're trying.

I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches.

Over the years, over the history of our country, liberals have stood on many of the right sides of the issues.

A liberal is a person who kept an open mind … a person who did not always look backward but would look forward to new possible solutions.