Asks Quote by George McGovern

Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to…

— Marcia Angell

For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.

— Douglas Massey

Democrats are fighting fire with fire. Our principled stance on Medicare and Social Security is absolutely no different than the Republicans' stance on no…

— Judy Chu

For a long time the Conservative party gave the impression of not being terribly interested in the people who were on welfare and that…

— David Gauke

You have to understand the way the liberal looks at something working. Their purpose here is not to provide you health care cheaply, affordably…

— Rush Limbaugh

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was…

— Barney Frank

When the concept of Social Security came before the House, every Republican but one voted against it. Had it not been for the Democrats,…

— Sam Rayburn

“That is why we have welfare instead of workfare meaning that conservatives like welfare. It may sound like a shock to you but conservatives…

— William Domhoff

“In a study Suzanne Mettler asked 1,400 Americans whether they had used a government social program. Fifty-seven percent said they had not. Then she…

— Anu Partanen

Unfortunately, liberals didn't stop with welfare-statism. They also turned to economic regulations, not understanding that such interventions, again, harmed the very people they were…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying…

— Mark Steyn

I am talking about the radical conservatives in the Democratic Party. That's who we need to counter. It's the same across any number of…

— Saikat Chakrabarti