Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives…

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps like the many and various meanings of the word "we," liberals use the word "unsubstantiated" to mean "tested repeatedly and proved true."

— Ann Coulter

We have to stop acquiescing even to the wording that the liberals use.

— Ted Cruz

The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant way to…

— John Steinbeck

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or…

— Simone Weil

Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda campaign conducted…

— Paul Krugman

Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'

— Cynthia McKinney

'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form…

— Karl Rove

I don't like this word, 'Feminazis,' or 'libtard.' I don't like these words, because I feel there's no true understanding of the word 'feminism,'…

— Konkona Sen Sharma

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by…

— Robert Reich

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which…

— Alan K. Simpson

The word liberal has been employed as the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease -- the kind that could be…

— Eric Alterman

I would say that, unfortunately, the word liberal has been redefined over the last 30 years as if it is a bad thing. But…

— Janeane Garofalo

Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals…

— Eric Alterman

The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.

— Bo Burnham