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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Robert Frost

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

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

Robert M. Hutchins

Three simple words -- freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

Charles Kennedy

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.

Alan Young

He came in as a liberal Democrat and has governed as a moderate-to-liberal Democrat, and that's why liberal Democrats are mostly satisfied. That's what he is.

Douglas Muzzio

It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.

Pat Robertson

It would simply mean that there was another liberal candidate on stage.

Tim Murtaugh

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Cicero

Colorado has become a battleground state for both liberal and conservative forces. It's one of the states in play.

Floyd Ciruli

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

G. Gordon Liddy

If we don't, we could end up with Democrats in the Legislature and, Heaven forbid, a liberal like Chris Bell for governor.

Dan Patrick

The announcement of the criminal investigation . . . made what was a relatively comfortable (Liberal) lead into a neck and neck race.

Nik Nanos

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

If there were a third-party candidate on the ballot who is pro-choice, that candidate could draw heavily from Casey backers among liberal Democrats, enough to make it a close race.

Clay F. Richards

A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.

Wendy Kaminer

If the Liberal Democrats lose seats, we are likely to see a yen sell-off.

Mark Chandler

A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins.

Heywood C. Broun

I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body.

Ana Gasteyer

He would say an 80-year-old man from Alabama shouldn't tell someone what they can put on paper, ... Some of his decisions would be called liberal and some conservative. What I call him is a strict constructionist.

Stephen Black

The Liberal government doesn't seem to care.

John Duncan

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

Jacques Barzun

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Max Eastman

Dover's modest curriculum change embodies the essence of liberal education.

Patrick Gillen

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Kurt Vonnegut

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.

Peter Gay

It took a degree of courage for Harriet to be involved in that. The ABA is a place where there was an awful lot of liberal activism, so it took some courage for a woman to take the position she did.

Leonard Leo

The invasion of Iraq, the displacement of a cruel dictator, and the attempt to impose a liberal democracy by force have, by themselves, been insufficient to bring peace and security to the civilian population. Democratic imperialism has led to more deaths, not fewer.

Richard Horton

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

Dick Gregory

Much more liberal Europe, one big supermarket.

Michel Barnier

I haven't heard about this, but I think it's just hilarious. However, Minnesota has always been more liberal than conservative.

Tony Chen

It is a big score for us, no doubt about it. It takes a potential Liberal leadership candidate away from the Liberals.

Tim Powers

See he doesn't respect you. He said attorneys can reach a better decision. His ideas seem liberal and this race is about conservative issues.

Dan Altman

(If they) have got better things to do than work for an election victory, they are better off out of the Liberal Party ... just get out.

Philip Davis

Their accounting systems are often very different from the United States. They can be a little more liberal.

Kevin Mcdevitt

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

Tommy Douglas

I'm going to show that the Liberal Democrats are the party of ideas and innovation in Britain.

Menzies Campbell

This is like the ideal liberal arts education.

Victoria Brinton

Mr. Harper will receive a copy of the report when the (Liberal) government gets it.

Hali Gernon

If this is any way a front or any way connected to the Liberal party, then I have serious concerns about it.

Pat Martin

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.

Cyrano De Bergerac

I can always run as an independent. I wouldn't run as a Liberal with Paul Martin as the leader.

Alfonso Gagliano

Lieberman has high marks on Iraq but he is still very much a liberal and we are Republicans.

Chris Healy

As a liberal Democrat, I hope that my fellow Democrats would hold themselves to a higher standard than the sort of Republicans who attacked Clinton as they did.

Waldo Jaquith

This is a 50-50 state, ... We are a crossroads state and very diverse. We've never really elected anyone too far to the right or too far to the left, too liberal or too conservative, and that could make it difficult for Ken to win in the fall.

Betty Montgomery

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

Alain Badiou

We don't think it's a liberal cause.

Richard Cizik

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.

Gregory Nunn

I don't call that liberal.

Lanny Ebenstein

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Robert Anton Wilson

There is a culture in the Liberal party that is unacceptable in a democracy.

Jack Layton

What's funny is that, in fact, the liberal Catholics are kind of giving a sigh of relief, but conservative Catholics are complaining. They were hoping that someone would crack down on all of the people they consider heretics, but so far he has not done that.

Thomas Reese

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

He is firming up his support from liberal women.

Joseph Mercurio

Without Chafee, you're going to get an extremely liberal Democrat in that seat.

Dan Ronayne

All the polls suggest the Liberal Party is heading for a disaster.

Mark Brindal

So I hope we can build a consensus around what is a very liberal position on this issue, and that we can give Australians the right that New Zealanders have.

Nick Minchin

There are a number of liberal groups out there raising money for ads. John Kerry won't be overwhelmed.

Stu Rothenberg

Everything was out to divide us: urban versus rural, black versus white, liberal versus conservative.

Rhonda Anderson

Moderate liberal heart.

Douglas W. Kmiec

There is nothing liberal about Mr. Duceppe.

Pierre Pettigrew

Renaissance of the liberal arts.

Robert Weisbuch

This may sound bizarre to some of you, but in Canada, one of the two legislative branches never go to the electorate. This is the Senate, which, like the Supreme Court, is appointed by the Government..and is therefore Liberal-dominated.

Stockwell Day

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

Stockwell Day

He's trying to erase 30 years as a career liberal.

Vivian Myrtetus

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

Tom Wolfe

And that's too bad whether you're a liberal or conservative.

Charles Palmer

Canadians are being hit hard in the wallet as gas prices continue to rise and yet the Liberal government doesn't seem to care.

John Duncan

We have fewer liberal Republicans and fewer conservative Democrats than we used to.

Bill Lunch

He's gotten a very, very warm reaction from the left-liberal wing of the party.

Thomas Schaller

A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.

Willis Player

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.

Alan K. Simpson

The FAA is now finding that the statutes as crafted don't fit. So now they have to be very liberal in their interpretations of the law in order to accommodate the emerging technologies.

Stuart Witt

Using the liberal definition of what you include in worldwide sales, GM may not be the biggest automaker a year from now.

Alan Baum

We are on the cusp of reversing 12 years of Liberal rule.

Tony Clement

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

Sir Winston Churchill

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.

Leonard Bernstein

Our department is very liberal in that respect.

Benjamin Foster

It is very difficult for a liberal democracy to deal with those that want to completely undermine the fabric on which liberal democracy is built. This is an absolutely new challenge for liberal democracies.

Richard Whitman

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

George Orwell

An economic liberal with a big heart. He has been our guide for 17 years and we expect him to continue making enormous contributions.

Peter Hakim

Liberal corruption in Ottawa by ensuring Edmonton does not return one Liberal to office after the next election.

Rahim Jaffer

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.

Jerry Rubin

A European, Western and economically liberal Poland suits our interests.

Hospodarske Noviny

In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

Rudolph W. Giuliani

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'.

John Mccarthy

A record is fair game. He's called me a liberal Democrat. That's deadly.

Kathy Salvi

When they win, they mix it up, ... They're liberal on some issues and conservative on other issues. They can't be liberal on everything because there aren't enough liberals in the South.

Merle Black

The time is based on the sunrise, but we're kind of liberal about that. Sometimes it's based on media coverage.

John Griffith

When I made the decision to leave I could have potentially been in an election just two to three days after. Mr. Emerson campaigned as a Liberal and just a few days after the election made the decision to leave.

Belinda Stronach

Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.

James Meredith

When he first came to Liberal and told us what his visions were going to be, we all believed them because they all came true.

Johnnie Nelson

It's like liberal and puritanical at the same time.

Bob Davis

It's very interesting to have a strong liberal and a strong Republican and have a bipartisan discussion. I liked the message in general.

Mary Ryan

Is there an inherent liberal bias in some of our leading news organizations or, asking the same question another way, is there an inherent anti-conservative bias in some of our leading news organizations?

Peter Kent

I'm a third-generation born San Franciscan, and I'm appalled that you have not only been elected but re-elected by your misguided ultra liberal so-called citizens.

Jim Donovan

Democrats, and the liberal Democrats particularly, better watch out because this was a tide that would have its way because it was so important to people.

Ben Wattenberg

The report has shown there is a culture of greed in the Liberal Party.

Jack Layton

The Liberal Party has taken a beating. Now it's time to move on.

Marc Garneau

You know it's an election year in Washington when people try things like this. The Democrats are going through these gyrations of block and delay for the liberal interest groups who butter their bread.

Joseph Cella

But her feelings have been exploited by liberal wackos.

John Phelps

We support the black candidates because we're sure they're going to vote in the liberal interest.

Ike Brown

The Liberal Party didn't even recognize the existence of the fiscal imbalance, even though they created it.

Eric Girard

God is a bit more liberal than they anticipated. When he sends them back, they become more liberal — the son becomes gay and has an affair with his coach.

Ellen Huang

A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.

Edmond Rostand