Liberal Quotes

If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

I am a liberal. I want everyone to be well.

If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.

Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

I don't want to do just a liberal show.

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.

I'm a liberal Democrat, and I state that proudly.

A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.

My family had liberal positions.

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.

What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.

We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up.

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.

To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.

Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.

A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not only can we have more environmentally sensitive planning, but we can have more homes and more schools.

I'm not allowed to be as liberal as I would like to be, you know? I'd do a lot more damage if I could!

When Ronald Reagan chose George H.W. Bush in 1980, it was a clear signal that he was running an inclusive campaign; that he welcomed the moderate and even liberal wings of the GOP - there was a liberal wing back then - into his campaign.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.

Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

I grew up in Vancouver, which is a pretty liberal, gay Mecca of the West coast. There's San Francisco, and then there's Vancouver.

I'm regarded outside New York University as a looney tunes leftie, self-hating Jewish communist; inside the university, I'm regarded as a typical, old-fashioned, white male liberal elitist. I like that. I'm on the edge of both; it makes me feel comfortable.

Obviously a primary liberal conviction is that we should be tolerant of other peoples' convictions. But if we believe in something, we had better find ways to say so convincingly.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

I have nothing against conservative people putting out conservative commentary or doing conservative broadcasting, or liberal people doing liberal broadcasting, or conservative blogs or liberal blogs.

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.

Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.

I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings.

I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.

Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.