Jonathan Raban Quotes

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

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

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

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

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

The aim of Arab unity is the strongest and deepest motivation for the Socialist Arab Bath Party as a popular revolutionary and progressive movement.

Tammany Hall is the cradle of modern liberalism.

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.

Vermont's a very liberal state.

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

I thought of reaching out for progressive Israelis, progressive Americans, progressive American Jews - this was probably my main mission.

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

Keith Ellison is the future of the Democratic Party, the future of the progressive movement.

I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though.

Hillary Clinton does represent the establishment. I represent, I hope, ordinary Americans, and by the way, who are not all that enamored with the establishment, but I am very proud to have people like Keith Ellison and Raul Grijalva in the House, the co-chairmen of the House Progressive Caucus.

She [Hillary Clinton] is the epitome of the progressive - the secular progressive movement. And she counts on the fact that people are uninformed, the Alinsky Model, taking advantage of useful idiots.

They spent the night in jail, where their progressive views on gay marriage served them well.

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.

We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate.

We in a sense went for the Bernie Sanders model OK? Now we're also in turmoil as a result of this result.

The Democratic lawmakers are still trying to figure out how to capitalize on this new wave of leftist anger, if you want to call it that.

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

(T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!