Liberal Quotes
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
Maajid Nawaz
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
Ralph Nader
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The DNA of a true Hindu is liberal. We are, by essence, liberal.
Kapil Sibal
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My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.
Peter Dinklage
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Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
Edmund Phelps
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As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.
Barney Frank
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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.
Lauren Graham
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Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes.
Naomi Klein
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POET If not in a place, where are the People weeping? LIBERAL They creep weeping in the face, not place. POET Is it something with which we may cope The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?
Allen Tate
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I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.
Gail Sheehy
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M&A guidelines need to be liberal.
Kapil Sibal
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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Ovid
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Citizenship of a democratic state means living by the laws of the country. A liberal democracy cannot survive when part of the population believes that divine laws trump those made by man.
Ian Buruma
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If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
Laura Schlessinger
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'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.
Damian Lewis
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost
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I myself have not met a self‐confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the “typical liberal” — as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns.
Wilfrid Sheed
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The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.
Steve Jobs
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With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.
Lao Tzu
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A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet....
Frank Rizzo
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Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.
Ezekiel Emanuel
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Yes, I'm proud to be a liberal.
Michael Dukakis
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In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.
Matthew Continetti
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A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.
Michael Ignatieff