Liberal Quotes

#1. America is conservative in fundamental principles ... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.

Gunnar Myrdal

#2. The undeniable feeling that, as you castigate a troll, he's rubbing his Red Dwarf mouse pad against his crotch and sighing, Angry liberal women typing at me. Oh yah. That's how I like it.

Caitlin Moran

#3. Violence, of course, is generally associated with frankly totalitarian forms of anti-political utopianism like Communism, but the Second World War shows that liberal universalists are as capable of violence as Communists. They are just less capable of honesty.

Greg Johnson

#4. To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.

Michael Z. Williamson

#5. I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Rick Warren

#6. I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, & political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#7. Institutionalised love always looks down on her more liberal sister

Guy De Maupassant

#8. Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.

Rush Limbaugh

#9. The continued increase in many crime indicators and the fact that the overall crime rate has not seen a marked decrease while the Liberals have been in power is a clear indication that the Liberal approach to combating crime, as on so many other issues, has failed.

Stephen Harper

#10. 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.

Alex Kingston

#11. I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write.

Tom Brokaw

#12. My dad's cool. He is socially liberal.

Casey Wilson

#13. She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they expected you to be silent and grateful, and always reminded you of how much better than wherever you had come from America was.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#14. You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination.

Gillian Flynn

#15. The faithfulness principle (of the conservative) and the flexibility principle (of the liberal) are two sides of the same coin. They are both necessary if Christians are to follow their instructions and remain simultaneously "in" the world but not "of" it.

Os Guinness

#16. 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

#17. To have been the first woman premier of Victoria was not only a great opportunity but also a great chance to say to the young women of Victoria - Liberal or Labor - 'You can do it, too.'

Joan Kirner

#18. If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.

Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#19. I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life.

Jack Nicholson

#20. We Liberal Democrats don't believe we should use the tax structure to champion just one type of family.

Charles Kennedy

#21. I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a social liberal.

David H. Koch

#22. This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.

Virchand Gandhi

#23. To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.

Michael Frayn

#24. Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.

Mark McKinnon

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

Ron Fournier

#26. We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.

Terence McKenna

#27. Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

Rob Portman

#28. As soon as a Democrat or a liberal organization opens their mouth and says "We want to see this," it's going to go over the heads. And same way on the abortion debate, if they want to make a change, it is not going to come from a Republican, it's going to have to come from a Democrat.

Chuck Todd

#29. That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.

Thomas Huxley

#30. These are times when what used to be called liberal is now called radical; what used to be called radical is now called insane; what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate; and what used to be called insane is now called solid, neo-conservative thinking.

Katrina Vanden Heuvel

#31. It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.

Stephen Colbert

#32. Scandinavians are not only the happiest and most contented people in the world, but also the most peaceful, tolerant, egalitarian, progressive, prosperous, liberal, and technologically advanced.

Anonymous

#33. Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.

Thomas Sowell

#34. Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.

Tony Blair

#35. I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.

Frida Giannini

#36. Britain makes it absolutely, blindingly clear that it is liberal social welfare policies. And they have turned a good chunk of their native population into animals. They are absolute animals. They are not humans with free will. They eat, they screw, they drink.

Ann Coulter

#37. Liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the establishment.

Susan Sontag

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

Chick Corea

#39. The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

Eric Alterman

#40. Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.

Paul Hawken

#41. For some extraordinary reason, there is a fixed notion that it is more liberal to disbelieve in miracles than to believe in them.

G.K. Chesterton

#42. The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

Mark Helprin

#43. 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.

Alexander Haig

#44. [I suspect] that in the drive toward the liberal universalist notion of human rights that characterized the last fifty or so years, there has been an accompanying oversensitivity that, in practice, keeps us atomized and more likely to be manipulated and have our rights impinged upon.

Darren O'Donnell

#45. A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

David Mamet

#46. Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

Alain Badiou

#47. A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.

Will Rogers

#48. The privileged liberal position: There should be equal rights for all; I should not have to share my riches with the poor.

Mohsin Hamid

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

Gary Locke

#50. It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.

Allen West

#51. A society which is liberal democratic cannot have public policy determined upon the basis of who has got the loudest voice - or who can brings things to a halt.

Charles Kennedy

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

Ann Coulter

#53. Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

Alfred Richard Orage

#54. Sometimes, it might be called conservative; sometimes it might be called liberal. But the point is that the meaning of the Constitution and other laws should not change unless we the people change them.

John Cornyn

#55. The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

Adam McKay

#56. The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.

John Mearsheimer

#57. I consider myself a pretty progressive person, and I think I have a track record that shows that. But I'm also not just going to do a policy because it's the liberal thing to do.

Julian Castro

#58. But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome.

Brad Carson

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

David Mamet

#60. 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.

Muriel Humphrey

#61. The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

Benjamin Tucker

#62. It is quite an achievement. People of liberal sympathies, stupefied by relativism, have become the apologists for a creedal wave that is racist, misogynist, homophobic, imperialist, and genocidal. To put it another way, they are up the arse of those that want them dead.

Martin Amis

#63. You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.

Martin Luther

#64. An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal.

Emile Faguet

#65. The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.

Peter Hall

#66. Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

Sydney Pollack

#67. The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#68. To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

Joseph Joubert

#69. When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

Jane Fonda

#70. Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas.

Mona Charen

#71. As Liberal Democrats and proponents of federalism, we must put our heads above the parapet and recapture and disseminate the true meaning of federalism. We have to win the vocabulary before we succeed in the vision.

Charles Kennedy

#72. I don't care if they're Republican liberals or Democrat liberals, they're still liberals. They're not 'moderates.' Don't hit me with that. There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise.

Rush Limbaugh

#73. Just one Bush justice on the court means left-wingers might have to start actually winning votes for their wacky ideas; a prescription for liberal extinction.

Jay Severin

#74. I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#75. The liberal posture really requires a willingness to give to others, and that works, as I say, when you have an expanding pie. But if you don't have an expanding pie, everyone starts hunkering down.

Thomas B. Edsall

#76. It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.

Nina Easton

#77. Everyone is a liberal until they have something to conserve. Then they become a conservative.

Ronald Reagan

#78. Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

Jon Postel

#79. I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

Charles Krauthammer

#80. Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.

John Derbyshire

#81. The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

Peter T. King

#82. It does strange things to you to realize that the conservative establishment is forcing you to be a progressive liberal fighter for universal rights.

Brandon Sanderson

#83. 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.

Paul Kantner

#84. Liberal democracy is a powerful unifying mechanism, blurring differences between people and imposing uniformity of views, behavior, and language.

Ryszard Legutko

#85. Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

William Eldridge Odom

#86. A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.

James Cook

#87. The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant.

Rush Limbaugh

#88. Ted Baillieu certainly has served the state very well. He has served the Liberal party extraordinarily well, and he can be very, very proud of his achievements. I am honoured and proud to say that he is not just a colleague, he is a great friend.

Denis Napthine

#89. I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.

Dean Smith

#90. If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.

Clarence Thomas

#91. The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie
but only if she is paid the minimum wage.

Irving Kristol

#92. 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

#93. The American Jews are liberal en masse because the 'Bill Of Rights' guarantees for them (through their evolutionist Justices) to keep the majority and their 'Democracy' in check.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#94. 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!

CeeLo Green

#95. 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.

Louis C.K.

#96. Having done an impressive job of demolishing the basic societal building block of the family, the ambitious liberal is now moving on to demolishing the basic building block of the sexes.

Mark Steyn

#97. Deep down, the boringly pragmatic Liberal Party has a sunnier view of human nature than the passionately idealistic Labor Party because we are prepared to put more trust in the common sense and decency of our fellow Australians.

Tony Abbott

#98. The economic insecurity of the past ten to 15 years, the 2008 Wall Street crash, NAFTA, and the loss of millions of good jobs - these directly grow out of Democratic Party neo-liberal policies.

Jill Stein

#99. I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.

Will Rogers

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

Stockwell Day