Jess Phillips Quotes

Jeremy Corbin is a little too liberal for me.

The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

Jeremy Corbyn is a principled Labour man.

Maybe we'd forgotten what socialists are meant to look and sound like. Well, now we've been reminded. They're meant to look and sound like Jeremy Corbyn.

Sometimes you have to invest in people to get the best out of them. To me, that is socialism. That is why I'm a Labour member rather than a Conservative.

I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering... I have always been a strong libertarian both inside the Labour Party and outside... what I want to seek to do over a period of course is to establish a Socialist society.

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'

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.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

The day where America can be the welfare system for Mexico is gone.

Fair Shares for All, is Labour's Call

If the American working people were as I would like them to be, they would all be socialists and I would be President.

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

This is mere socialism. Every Socialist and Communist in the country has been supporting the proposed legislation since it was first dreamed up and submitted to Congress.

The Occupy movement flared and then seemed to fizzle out - until it re-emerged in the form of Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign and in the far-left surge that made Jeremy Corbyn leader of the British Labour Party.

I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

Bill Clinton is a moderate Democrat. I'm a democratic socialist.

Corbyn is about 1970s Bennite control.

For a party of the left to win, people have to have believe that government, the state, can be on their side. When I was a young mother, Sure Start and tax credits weren't just a financial lifeline, they represented hope.

I am convinced that there are few, if any, American people that could even start believing or understanding what living in a socialist country does to a person.