Liberal Quotes · Page 6

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

— Carter Glass

The Liberal carbon tax is just about raising revenue for government.

— Andrew Scheer

“What is the difference between a parasite and a liberal? The spelling!”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.”

— Richard Epstein

I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.

— John Catsimatidis

There are pockets of liberal, affluent America where parents don't want their kids vaccinated.

— Matt Lauer

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 have no limits to my ambition for the Liberal Democrats.

— Jo Swinson

Snowden is the thoughtful, courageous saint of liberal reform. And Julian Assange is a sort of radical, feral prophet who has been…

— Arundhati Roy

But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.

— Adolf Hitler

Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.

— Mark McKinnon

States that promote liberal hegemony invariably damage the fabric of liberalism inside their own borders.

— John Mearsheimer

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts…

— Anonymous

I am not saying Russia is not important, but Trump's base is very well defended against that: 'the liberal media is out…

— Naomi Klein

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We are living out the liberal dream of our founders. The Constitution, the very liberal document - we have gone beyond English…

— Alan Colmes

As someone who is on the more liberal side of things, I personally think this side needs to be a little less…

— Brett Gelman

“Tendintele autoritate ale conservatorismului trebuie corectate prin mituri ale libertatii, in vreme ce un simt conservator al ordinii trebuie sa tempereze tendintele…

— Northrop Frye

I'm very liberal in some ways, and then I'm very conservative in others. I once asked my grandpa, "Are you a Republican…

— Kenny Chesney

The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume…

— Charles Krauthammer

There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balance this with a…

— Peter Agre

What is political correctness, if not essentially redemptive speech? Soon liberalism had become a cultural identity that offered Americans a way to…

— Shelby Steele

“What have paupers to do with soul or spirit? It's quite enough that we let 'em have live bodies. If you had…

— Charles Dickens

The Netherlands is a really cool place where you could be a doctor or a DJ and they're like, 'It's the same…

— Michelle Buteau

“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to…

— Criss Jami

No liberal newspaper ever talked about the invasion of Vietnam; they talked about the defense of Vietnam. And then they were saying,…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Eric Alterman

“As a leftover sixties liberal, I believe that the long arm and beady eyes of the government have no place in our…

— Jeffrey Steingarten

I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Odd Fellows Chamber Music for 2013 will be in October this year To Participants in the Odd Fellows Youth Chamber Music Project:…

— Stephen Co

When one becomes a liberal, he or she pretends to advocate tolerance, equality and peace, but hilariously, they’re doing so for purely…

— Greg Gutfeld

There is nobody better at deconstructing liberals than me. If there is, I haven't met 'em. This is not a brag. It's…

— Rush Limbaugh

I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.

— Walter Cronkite

Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

“Liberal democracy was saved only by nuclear weapons.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.

— Michael Ignatieff

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

— Alan Dershowitz

I became an MP in 2017 and have been around to watch Liberal Democrat party membership soar.

— Layla Moran

The highest good and solely useful is liberal education.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

— Mike Rosen