Liberal Quotes - page 27

I am a liberal. I want everyone to be well. (Diego Della Valle)
The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination. View quote
Drew Gilpin Faust
I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth. View quote
Daniel Keys Moran
Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is. View quote
Daniel Okrent
But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper. View quote
Daniel Okrent
People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views. View quote
Eli Broad
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. View quote
Ellen Key
Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative. View quote
Emilio Estevez
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. View quote
Eric Alterman
To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.' View quote
Ed Asner
I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view. (Evan Davis)
You actually see liberals checking 'Fox News,' if only to know what the conservatives are thinking. And you're seeing conservatives who venture into liberal sources, just to know what 'The New York Times' is thinking. View quote
Evgeny Morozov
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy. View quote
Evgeny Morozov
Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal. View quote
Ezekiel Emanuel
It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.' View quote
Frank Gaffney
Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society. View quote
Gustav Heinemann
Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans. View quote
Gary Bauer
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports. View quote
Henry Giroux
I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running. View quote
Harold Ford, Jr.
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty. View quote
Ian McShane
My mom has always been very open, very liberal. So I grew up with that, and I can appreciate everything that she did and went through and was exposed to. (Ione Skye)
What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines. View quote
James L. Buckley
Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans. View quote
James Meredith
If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power? View quote
Jeff Greenfield
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense pleasure out of drawing connections between pieces and poems and literature and ideas. View quote
Jeremy Denk