There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is…

I am not a liberal who is so afraid of the word that I had to change my name to progressive.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case on its…

— Walter Cronkite

A lot of our fellow liberals ... seem to me rather to doom themselves to futility in public affairs because the won't recognize that…

— Charles Edward Montague

I'm just imagining some of [Mark Lilla] fellow liberals being rather angry at you saying such a thing [that Democrats and liberals, more generally,…

— Steve Inskeep

I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on its merits.…

— Walter Cronkite

I'm a liberal arts comedian and the definition of liberal arts is all spheres of human knowledge, coexisting, mixing and influencing each other.

— Adam Conover

My fellow liberals need to open their minds and realize that not all Trump supporters are racist, sexist, or deplorable individuals.

— Seph Lawless

If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we…

— Dennis Prager

I said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and obviously all liberals don't…

— Bernard Goldberg

“We are all familiar with intellectuals who speak only on behalf of their country, class, religion, 'race,' 'gender,' or 'sexual orientation,' and who shape…

— Tony Judt

“The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the…

— Donald Miller

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

And above all, what does being liberal have to do with opposing, or, uh, supporting the war against terror? Our enemies in the war…

— Orson Scott Card

“The left wants, needs, loves, and exacerbates violent conflict. The question is…why?...Conservatives generally want policy discussions because we disagree with liberals. Liberals need gutter…

— Eric Golub

I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.

— Al Franken