Progressive Governance Quotes

I am proud to stand with the millions of women and men who recognize that our government should legislate according to the reality of our lives - not for ideology.

The general idea [of Fabianism] is that each man should have power according to his knowledge and capacity....From every man according to his capacity; to every man according to his needs. A democratic Socialism, controlled by majority votes, guided by numbers, can never succeed; a truly aristocratic Socialism, controlled by duty, guided by wisdom, is the next step upwards in civilisation.

We are not a democratic country, but we are progressive on various issues, on women and on what I would call tolerance. The government emphasizes prosperity over political development. We think 20 percent politics/80 percent development, and I think that is healthy.

Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.

The way to end corruption is a progressive, policy driven state with proper implementation.

We can surely boast of having set the world a beautiful example of a government reformed by reason alone, without bloodshed.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

This contest between the secular and religious visions of government is really the main choice to be made. It won't be decided in one election, but it is a basic choice between an open and progressive Iraq and one that is backward and continues to fall behind.

Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in American politics. He is the un-Edwards and un-Huckabee - an adult aiming to reform the real world rather than an adolescent fantasizing mock-heroic 'fights' against fictitious villains in a left-wing cartoon version of this country.

The word Amendment itself is an encouraging thing, isn't it? Because an amendment, it tells of a system of government that allows for the improvement of itself. Just move forward a little bit, one day at a time.

We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward.

I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use that kind of innovation to help usher in a new economy that doesn't rely on carbon-spewing fossil fuels.

Our government has been pro-poor, progressive, and people-oriented.

We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.

We want a good government that works. Let us rise above caste divisions and nepotism and pledge to elect a government that is development oriented. Delhi needs a stable government and a strong government

Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive.

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

We regard the state as an agency whose positive assistance is one of the indispensable conditions of human progress.

The vast majority of people support the idea of an enlightened, modern union of countries demonstrating solidarity. Film director Wim Wenders recently summed up the problem to me very well. He said the idea of Europe has become an administration, and now people think that the administration is the idea. But that doesn't mean we should give up on the idea - it means we should change the administration.

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.