Quotes on the topic: Liberal


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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.


When people ask me if I'm liberal or conservative, I say, 'Yeah.' I'm both of them. To be a liberal means to be open-minded and generous and open to new ideas. And to be conservative means to hold onto things that are important, things that shouldn't be cast aside.


We entered the global market only in the end-'80s, and that was because imports became more liberal.


It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.


I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.


I might not understand everything a Democrat or liberal thinks but hey let's be honest, I don't understand some of the things the Republicans think, but that doesn't make me some dumb hick that doesn't have the right to live here.


I don't care if you're Republican or a Democrat or a Liberal, getting crucified for the way you think or believe, obviously if it's not hurting anyone, it's just Un-American.


Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?


This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.


It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.


I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.


It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.


I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.


In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.


A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.


Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.


Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening', you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.


I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.


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


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