Keith Ellison Quotes

Barack Obama is a radical, and we should not be afraid to say that.

I might not understand everything a Democrat or liberal thinks but hey let's be honest, I don't understand some of the things the Republicans think, but that doesn't make me some dumb hick that doesn't have the right to live here.

You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.

I'm not 100 percent anybody's ideological prism.

I am personally quite liberal.

Right-wing, pivot, centre-back, full-back, right, left. I've never felt uncomfortable anywhere.

When most people see the word "radical," they think that it must refer to something left wing. Some people also may think of it as referring to far right-wing marginal groups. But here we have a president of the United States [George W. Bush] at the center of power, sitting in the White House, who is a radical.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

The truth is, I am conservative, but socially, I'm very liberal.

No, we should not be afraid of the populists; we should embrace those they are fighting.

If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back.

The Democratic Party has been my party over 50 years, where I waged my battle to change America and change the world from its progressive wing.

I do not hate Likudniks, I do not hate anyone.

We're able to choose our candidate not based on gender or sex or anything else other than their ideas.

When my brothers and I were young, my mom, a Democrat, and my dad, a Republican, used to lead freewheeling discussions at our dinner table. The only rule was paying attention when others were talking, and no interrupting.

Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

The Democratic Party has to be run by progressives... because we can't let another monster like Donald Trump win again... even if we seem impolite in our fight back against him.

I would rather sit down with a Hollywood liberal any day than simply surround myself with fellow conservatives.

My party was the party which was created by Mr Mohammad Ali Jinnah. He didn't create that party. But he was the main pillar of the party. Our party is a very forward-looking, progressive, democratic party.

The success of the long-established relationship between the liberal/socialist/progressives and the Black Talented Tenth has been due to their commonality in commitment to an ideology and self-aggrandizement above all else.

Everyone is entitled to their own political opinions. It is what makes our country great.

I've been politically radical my whole life, so when the left attacks, that hurts more.

Open Society Foundations is essentially another name for George Soros, who is a committed leftist, one-world-government ideologue.

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