Allen West Quotes

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.

What I have been trying to do is indict the entire vision of progressivism.

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

You think you can govern separate from our Constitution? That's the foundation of progressivism right there, folks.

To take on the forces of nationalism and populism, we need to rally a liberal movement that offers a positive, alternative vision for the kind of country we want to be.

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.

Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

Barack Obama's political roots are liberal, but he has always resisted buying into the brand of liberalism that denigrates American greatness and potential.

I have always considered myself of the reforming centre-left.

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

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

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

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

America is essentially and radically a democracy, not in name merely but in deed.

When twenty years ago a vague terror went over the earth and the word socialism began to be heard, I thought and still think that fear was translated into doctrines that had no proper place in the Constitution or the common law.

Wisconsin is the fountain source of Progressivism. It is the scene of the chief political success of Socialism.