Jay Inslee Quotes

I am proud to be a progressive.

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

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

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

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

If their were more Franklin operations it could help the cause much more than right wing activity.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.

Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.

… societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police

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

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.

Since it is one of the great attributes of our species to be susceptible of improvement and capable of experiencing the most beneficial changes, for this reason what are vulgarly called 'venerable establishments' will often range themselves in opposition to the best interests of the community.

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

When you think about the progress and the progressive issues we are tackling and solving in Miramar, I'm looking to take these issues nationally because the American people need someone who can champion these issues for them.

The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done on their behalf, what is being done is not properly ambitious. If it is comprehensible to its intended beneficiaries, it is the work of insufficiently advanced thinkers.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

I'm a progressive who likes to get things done.

The people need someone who's closer to them and the American people need someone who will be their change agent and fight for the issues that are important to them.

I was always a reformer. My father and mother were progressives, and they believed in the universal vote, vote for women, land reform, and a lot of things which at one time were not accepted; they're much more accepted now.

I was considered the most progressive person the whole time I was in the legislature. I negotiated health care, I negotiated a minimum wage increase.

The objective of politics is always to build scenarios in which persons' horizons can be expanded evermore. Any political action that is aimed at restricting individuals' horizons is, as I see it, a regressive action in relation to the political values that I embrace.

Part of the reason why I wanted to be involved in politics was to create and be a part of policy changes.

The Labour party is mainly full of amazing people who care so much about equality and social justice they are probably a bit of a bore at a family do.