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Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.
Author:
Slavoj Zizek
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Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.
Author:
Alan Young
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Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.
Author:
James Woods
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If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.
Author:
Thomas Willis
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A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
Author:
Theodore White
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Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.
Author:
Paul Weyrich
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If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.
Author:
Paul Weyrich
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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.
Author:
Timothy West
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I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.
Author:
Allen West
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This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.
Author:
Allen West
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I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.
Author:
William Watson
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If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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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.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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I am certainly a liberal.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
Author:
Lionel Trilling
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The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.
Author:
June Trapp
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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton.
Author:
Robert Teeter
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The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.
Author:
Matthew Sweet
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In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.
Author:
John Strachan
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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
Author:
Joseph Stiglitz
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No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Author:
Thomas Sowell
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When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.
Author:
Todd Solondz
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The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.
Author:
Michael Simpson
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Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
Author:
Alan Simpson
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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.
Author:
Bill Shuster
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I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.
Author:
Donna Shalala
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Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.
Author:
John Searle
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Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.
Author:
Charles Schumer
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.
Author:
Arthur Scargill
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I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.
Author:
Diane Sawyer
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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.
Author:
Rick Santorum
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By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
Author:
Jerry Rubin
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What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really "empathy" and "understanding." He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
Author:
Karl Rove
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A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
Author:
Edmond Rostand
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Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.
Author:
Mitt Romney
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.
Author:
Frank Rizzo
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The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.
Author:
Robert Reich
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Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.
Author:
Ted Rall
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Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
Author:
Vladimir Putin
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The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.
Author:
Dennis Prager
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Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out.
Author:
Michael Powell
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Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
Author:
Jon Postel
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I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.
Author:
Sydney Pollack
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It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?
Author:
Ruth Pitter
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In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.
Author:
Rick Perry
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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
Author:
Mandy Patinkin
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My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
Author:
Sara Paretsky
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The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.
Author:
Michael Oxley
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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Author:
Ovid
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Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.
Author:
Daniel Okrent
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But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.
Author:
Daniel Okrent
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So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.
Author:
William Odom
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
Author:
Barack Obama
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There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
Author:
Barack Obama
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A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
Author:
Gregory Nunn
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North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.
Author:
Nursultan Nazarbayev
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
Author:
Ralph Nader
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The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
Author:
Benito Mussolini
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The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
Author:
Daniel Moynihan
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New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.
Author:
Constance Motley
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.
Author:
Daniel Moran
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The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.
Author:
Thurston Moore
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When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.
Author:
Andrea Mitchell
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Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.
Author:
Dennis Miller
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Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.
Author:
James Meredith
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Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.
Author:
Michael Medved
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The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.
Author:
Michael Medved
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The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.
Author:
John McCarthy
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Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
Author:
George Mason
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President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.
Author:
Bill Maher
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Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.
Author:
John Machen
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Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
Author:
Rich Lowry
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Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.
Author:
Rich Lowry
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings.
Author:
David Lloyd
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Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.
Author:
Rush Limbaugh
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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.
Author:
Edward Levi
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The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.
Author:
Edward Levi
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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.
Author:
William Kunstler
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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.
Author:
Frank Knox
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I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
Author:
Stephen Kleene
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In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
Author:
Lincoln Kirstein
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The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.
Author:
Peter King
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Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
Author:
Ellen Key
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Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.
Author:
Charles Kennedy
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I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
Author:
Garry Kasparov
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I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.
Author:
Paul Kantner
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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.
Author:
Bianca Jagger
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You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.
Author:
Don Imus
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A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Author:
Robert Hutchins
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There's something I've been wanting to say for a long time. I'm a liberal, and I'm proud of it. In fact, I was probably a little more liberal than Hubert was. I just wanted to say that.
Author:
Muriel Humphrey
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Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
Author:
Matthew Henry
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I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.
Author:
Jesse Helms
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Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Author:
Robert Heinlein
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Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.
Author:
Gustav Heinemann
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There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.
Author:
Lee Hazlewood
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Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
Author:
Rutherford Hayes
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Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.
Author:
Mark Hatfield
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Author:
Sydney Harris
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It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
Author:
Alexander Haig
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
Author:
Larry Hagman
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Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
Author:
Angelina Grimke
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
Author:
Dick Gregory
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As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.
Author:
Lauren Graham
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A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Author:
Carter Glass
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In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.
Author:
Rudy Giuliani
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
Author:
A. Giamatti
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To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.
Author:
Peter Gay
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I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body.
Author:
Ana Gasteyer
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Author:
Robert Frost
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
Author:
Al Franken
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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.
Author:
Al Franken
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We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.
Author:
John Frame
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If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
Author:
Tom Ford
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A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
Author:
Max Eastman
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My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.
Author:
Eliza Dushku
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The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.
Author:
Jacques Delors
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Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.
Author:
John Dean
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It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.
Author:
Stockwell Day
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In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.
Author:
Stockwell Day
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The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.
Author:
Stockwell Day
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Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.
Author:
Stockwell Day
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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.
Author:
Blythe Danner
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A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.
Author:
Frank Dane
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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.
Author:
Ann Coulter
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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
Author:
Noam Chomsky
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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.
Author:
Steve Chabot
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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.
Author:
Robert Casey
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I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
Author:
Steve Case
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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.
Author:
Mary Carpenter
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I'm a liberal arts junkie.
Author:
Mary Carpenter
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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
Author:
Stokely Carmichael
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Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.
Author:
Drew Carey
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Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
Author:
George Bush
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This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans.
Author:
Francine Busby
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I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.
Author:
John Bright
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
Author:
Malcolm Bradbury
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In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.
Author:
Pat Boone
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
Author:
Pat Boone
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I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.
Author:
Emma Bonino
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My family had liberal positions.
Author:
Emma Bonino
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Author:
Leonard Bernstein
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A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Author:
Cyrano Bergerac
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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.
Author:
Peter Berger
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There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.
Author:
Paul Begala
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Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.
Author:
Glenn Beck
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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
Author:
Amiri Baraka
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Author:
Tallulah Bankhead
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
Author:
Alain Badiou
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My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
Author:
Jillian Bach
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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.
Author:
Michael Aston
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Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
Author:
Paddy Ashdown
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
Author:
Paddy Ashdown
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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
Author:
Karen Armstrong
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The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.
Author:
Clive Anderson
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I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.
Author:
Aldrich Ames
