Bart Stupak Quotes

The Democratic Party has become the party of Bernie Sanders, I mean they are the progressives. That's who control.

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

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

'Putting People First' was progressivism revived and at its best.

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

I want to ensure that the Democratic Party moves in a more progressive direction, substantively and message-wise. And goes out and reaches people all over this country.

People are realizing that the winning message is the progressive message.

And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

The Democratic party is one that I've always observed. I have struggled greatly in life from the day I was born and I am honored to be apart of something that focuses on working class citizens and molds them into a proud specimen. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Kennedy have done so much in that regard for the two generations they've won over during their career course.

It is fair to say, Bernie Sanders, that in your definition, as you being the self-proclaimed gatekeeper for progressivism, I don't know anyone else who fits that definition, but I know a lot of really hard fighting progressives in the Democratic party who have stood up time, and time again against special interests, against the powerful on behalf of those who are left behind and left out.

The Democrats have traded an intellectually weakened liberal who acquiesced to everything progressives wanted for a full-on progressive who can be counted on to promote everything progressives want: Medicare for all, free healthcare for illegal immigrants, the abolition of cash bail, and much more.

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.

Seattle is this curious liberal 'island.'

I am certainly a liberal.

In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.

The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.

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

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.

I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win.

Never again should we Democrats wear the livery of the conservative.

No government of which I am a member will ever be a government of reaction.

I'm comfortable on the progressive side. But I'm still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive platform for the future. It's fair to say that that conversation doesn't interest me as much.

Issue by issue, if I were a Congressman, I would receive the highest rating from liberal think-tank Americans For Democratic Action.

I do think the Obama agenda is the furthest left agenda we've seen since probably LBJ and the Great Society. And the differences have been that instead of him trying to go center-left, he's gone - in my estimation - more left. He's shown the country a much more aggressive liberal, more European style agenda, and that's on a center-right country.