We whites who position ourselves as liberal often opt to protect what we perceive as our moral reputationsrather than recognize or change our participation in systems of inequity and domination.
There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride.
My mom’s side is very Orthodox, and my dad’s side is the opposite, very liberal. I got a taste of both worlds, and I got to make up my own mind. I’m somewhere in the middle, which is a good place to be.
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.
You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
The president’s dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.
Of course the Liberal Democrats are going to say things to try and get attention – but I don’t think the country is paying much attention.
In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials – considering it’s a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition – I think it’s the best editorial page around. It’s quite balanced.
The thing that we need to move on from is any time you meet somebody, we always say, ‘Oh, this is my friend so-and-so. And, you know, he’s a Republican.’ You know, we always label each other as a liberal or as a conservative or as a Democrat or as a Republican.
When it comes to the liberal agenda, it’s more important to pigeonhole people than it is to speak the truth.
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.
What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
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.
I am a liberal and always have been – just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
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.
There’s usually one piece in ‘Vanity Fair’ every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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.
Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?
I would rather sit down with a Hollywood liberal any day than simply surround myself with fellow conservatives.
The Liberal Party will not vote – no Liberal member of Parliament will vote – to take away a woman’s right to choose.
Whether I’m speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don’t find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I’m still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.
Fox News covers stories that some other news outlets won’t cover. We ask some questions that other news outlets wouldn’t ask. And sometimes that’s perceived as bias by people who’ve grown up in a world where there are only liberal outlets.
Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.
I am a liberal. I have always been a liberal.
Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.
I’m a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I’m sort of an aggressive wet liberal.
We went to a very liberal Episcopalian church. It didn’t take for me.
Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes.
Government social programs introduced in the ’60s by liberal Democratic politicians seduced black men into relying on ‘programs’ over God.
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media.
One of the things about New York City is obviously it’s a very liberal place but there are plenty of conservatives that don’t feel particularly well represented by Chuck Schumer or Kirsten Gillibrand.
Why am I a liberal? Because I don’t forget that I’m an immigrant and that I’m a Hispanic and that I have a Latin accent when I speak English, and I want to defend those who get racially profiled by people who would discriminate against us?
I’m a classical liberal. A free thinker.
You can’t get past the liberal press with a bucket of ink.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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.
Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don’t fully understand that.
Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.
In 1963, my parents took over a camp business from my grandparents. They turned it into a liberal, progressive, a co-educational, interracial camp for kids from all over the world, all over the country. And it was a very important cause for both of my parents.
Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don’t think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics.
My grandmother is very liberal, but… she still has her opinions.
A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith.’ I know I haven’t lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. Just for me.
We want to have a conversation about what does it mean to be liberal in the 21st century and how do we go about creating that kind of a society.
The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others to fund every social program under the sun via majority rule.
I’m not tribal Labour. I’m a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language.
I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I’m offering myself as the alternative PM – that’s one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition – but I’m not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.
I’m liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there’s still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I’m all for gun restrictions. But I’m also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I’m getting a gun.
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.
I am a limousine liberal.
Sadly, the Left is no longer liberal at all, for it has traded in individualism for collectivism, thus placing us into an oppression Olympics where victimhood is a virtue. This post-modernism – this cultural Marxism or whatever you want to call it – can only destroy; it cannot create.
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.
Phil Griffin, who happens to be the head of MSNBC, is not a liberal or progressive. I worked at MSNBC; I talked to Phil Griffin many times. I know Phil Griffin. He is not remotely progressive. All he cares about is success in his own career.
