#progressive

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#depends #greater #gulf #happiness #law

Progressive rock was happening. ↗

— Tony Orlando

#progressive #rock

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. ↗

— Jane Addams

#affection #cannot #conception #embody #hope

All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#even #i #lesbian #life #me

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#certainly #charge #exists #hill #i

I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#constituents #democratic #going #harder #hispanic

I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#believe #congress #doing #i #interviews

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured. ↗

— Rick James

#funk #i #lyrically #make #melodic

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#apparently #called #come #company #how

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#become #conventional #conventional wisdom #federal #government