Failure Quote by Richard Lamm

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

— Hunter S. Thompson

The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that…

— Bill Moyers

Liberalism teaches those who have fallen behind in the economic scramble to blame others for their failure. This attitude stimulates juices of resentment and…

— David Horowitz

The modern era of liberalism, the one we're living in, really has as its focus or foundation that America is unjust, immoral, and corrupt,…

— Rush Limbaugh

For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade -- that…

— Russell Shorto

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in…

— Criss Jami

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

— Anonymous

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply…

— Pierre Trudeau

Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot…

— John Stossel

For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of the…

— Alan Brinkley

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

— John Rawls

So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up.

— Jay Nordlinger