Liberal Quotes

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.
Jonathan Raban

Politics, Deep, Sense

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.
Frank Knox

Today, True, Thought

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.
Peter L. Berger

Lost, Enough, America

President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.
Bill Shuster

Marriage, President, Second

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.
Robert Reich

Real, Last, Word

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.
James L. Buckley

Finance, Two, Days

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!
Cee Lo Green

Damage, Allowed

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

Education, Give, Dignity

Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.
James Meredith

Enemy, Greatest, African

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.
Mary Chapin Carpenter

Work, Home, Somebody

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

Peace, Great, Party

This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans.
Francine Busby

Government, Making, Sure

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
Rich Lowry

Politics, American, Run

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

Small, Coalition

Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.
Timothy West

Hard, Him, Working

History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.
Ed Royce

Home, History, Full

I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it.
Blythe Danner

Time, Children, Seen

What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal democracy,' 'free markets' and 'Europe' with suspicion.
Donald Tusk

Power, Democracy, Free

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
Stephen Cole Kleene

Education, Philosophy, Two

As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.
Bernard Goldberg

Today, Jesus, Two

I said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and obviously all liberals don't think that. But I will tell you what, an awful lot of liberal elites think that.
Bernard Goldberg

Live, Country, Said

I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.
Bernard Goldberg

Why, Poor, Around

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.
Ron Suskind

Idea, Doctor, View

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.
Steve Chabot

Money, Control, Compromise

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

Nothing, Black, Church

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

State, Democrat, Proudly

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.
Andrej Pejic

Beauty, Good, Yourself

I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.
Alexander Downer

Future, Leader, Become

Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.
Joshua Jackson

Far, Idea, Maybe

I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
Dalton McGuinty

Leadership, Made, Both

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