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We’ve collected the best Liberals Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Phil Bredesen, Neil Macdonald, Tom Tancredo, Darryl Glenn, Mike Gallagher. Use them as an inspiration.

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Let’s leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let’s take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count – on real results.
Phil Bredesen
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And what are the Liberals’ election talking points, in this age of environmental insecurity and economic anxiety? That Andrew Scheer is scary.
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You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.
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I’m sick of hearing white liberals claim that if you call them out for their failed liberal programs, you’re a racist. It makes my blood boilwhich is part of why I am running.
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I’ve caught myself watching MSNBC more and more, simply amazed at the nightly hate-fest against millions of Americans who don’t see the world through the granny glasses of Keith Olbermann or any of the other radical liberals who host shows there.
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When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
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As liberals in charge and a media question the capabilities of police, they then limply ask why there is an anti-police atmosphere or why cops are holding back.
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Very few checklist liberals will focus on transformational work if they are rewarded or punished only for their transactional work.
9
Liberals worry that what’s best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.
10
Liberals talk about the ‘income inequality‘ and the ‘unfairness‘ and the disparity of the haves and the have-nots in New York City. Who has been running that city for all this time? Who has created the underclass in this country? It’s the Democrat Party.
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Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.
12
Liberals may mock people of faith who believe he was chosen to protect their values, but I believe Donald Trump is fulfilling his pledges and I pray he will continue to lead with divine guidance.
13
One of the most important things liberals don’t understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism’s variouswings,’ is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where ‘traditional morality‘ serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.
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Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right‘s aura of God-given self-confidence.
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Liberals always blame the other guy.
16
In the early 1970s in Washington, a small group of young conservative activists came together to try and change American politics. They called themselves the New Right, and they were convinced that unless they did something drastic, the liberals and the left-wingers in America were going to take over the country.
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Justin Trudeau had a message of asking Canadians to have trust in our immigration system. The problem is Canadians don’t have trust in the Liberals to manage it.
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Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.
19
Liberals allow right-wingers on their platforms to have a ‘civilized discussion,’ but there’s no reasoning with racists. I don’t want them to have a platform that humanizes them. I want to talk down to them and meet them exactly where they are, with absolutely no respect.
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Conservatives have to be more than just Liberals who are good at math.
21
Liberals want to live downtown. All over America – in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown – there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee.
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Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means, therefore, we’re odd and we’re kooks and maybe extreme and maybe mean.
23
I’m not allowed to buy advertising for my book ’50 Things Liberals Love to Hate’ on Facebook because, according to their representative, they have received complaints about the word ‘hate’ in my book title.
24
A lot of theatre people are definitely not conservative, but I don’t think liberals get to own the culture.
25
Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.
26
I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people’s minds better than we Liberals.
Charles Trevelyan
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Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65.
28
The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That’s a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning.
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I think there are some liberals who are extremely biased about Fox News and wish to shun it or wish to criticize any liberal who appears on Fox News. That, to me, is not a particularly liberal attitude.
30
Monty Python never directly said, ‘We’re liberals’ – they just did their sketches, and you had to figure it out. Generally, they were anti-establishment, of course, making fun of the people in power. I think, comedians, that’s their jobpointing out what other people might not notice and going, ‘Yoo-hoo, over here.’
31
Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.
32
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
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Government must become lean and efficient and customer friendly. It must begin to pay its bills. Liberals believe this is radical and cruel. The rest of us think it is common sense.
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Every time I go to these racial forums, it is people who are alike, or it is progressives and liberals. So I said, ‘At some point, we’ve got to bring the progressives and the liberals and the conservatives together.’
35
Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
36
Don’t expect liberals to weigh the costs of their sweet-sounding policies.
37
The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges.
Steve Chabot
38
In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to make an economic argument to social liberals, that it’s OK to vote for us. But we won‘t run the economy into the ground at the same time.
39
There are a lot of well meaning white liberals. And a lot of well meaning black liberals. But you know what? When all they do is sit around and preach to the choir it does absolutely no good. If you’re not a racist it doesn’t do any good for me to meet with you and sit around and talk about how bad racism is.
40
And, when it comes to politics, it can be awfully difficult to put your desires aside and to acknowledge that the world is a much messier place, where open-minded people might be conservative and liberals may well be conscientious.
41
My fellow liberals need to open their minds and realize that not all Trump supporters are racist, sexist, or deplorable individuals.
42
American liberals are an external part of Israel‘s conscience, and when it disdains them, it becomes a harder and more isolated place. The support that Israel has gained from millenarian American conservatives is no substitute, in part because such allies aren’t persuasive global advocates for Israel.
43
Democratic socialism‘ is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And ‘social democracy’ – a term that better fits the belief of more ordinary liberals who want, say, Medicare for all – is a politically dying force. Democrats who aren’t yet sick of all their losing should feel free to embrace them both.
44
Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find – I think education is something that can bring us together.
Greg Mortenson
45
It was obvious after the ’97 election that as long as there were two small-c conservative parties trying to destroy each other, the Liberals would win every election.
46
It’s fashionable to think that the conservative parties in America are the science deniers. You certainly wouldn’t have trouble supporting that claim. But liberals are not exempt.
47
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
48
Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.
49
Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
50
Incredible that liberals aren’t more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.
51
Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.
52
The West is pathetically naive about Russian reformers. We long to believe they are real liberals, but no liberal will ever rule Russia.
53
Liberals in Hollywood can’t stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.
54
Too great a love for the presidency has caused Democrats to neglect state and local politics and to overly prize compromise and a futile quest for bipartisanship. It has made liberals too allergic to federalism and too shy about grassroots politics.
55
We have seen a major decomposition of French political life, of the old political mainstream parties, and what we see now is a real new configuration which is emerging between the patriots and the new liberals.
56
Do liberals think nations such as Canada, Japan, Britain and Australia are pursuing ‘racist’ immigration policies? All have had merit-based immigration systems in place for decades.
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Liberals genuinely believe that this country is about helping one another out and doing it for the greater good.
58
Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies – liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.
59
Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don’t find these weapons of mass destruction. It’s enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.
60
The Liberal Party has finally shown its true colours. I’m talking about the real Liberal Party: the tax-hiking, rule-breaking, perk-loving, deficit-spending, debt-mounting, virtue-signalling Liberals Canadians have come to know and despise.
61
The left, liberals, believe that if we just have more gun control laws, all the problems are going to go away. Well, I don’t think so. I don’t think so. I think – yes, it will, it will be reduced. There’s no question about that.
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Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get done. This makes some conservatives and some liberals furious, nervous, and me nervous a little bit, because I’m a pretty pure conservative. So that’s a potential of his leadership.
63
I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
64
The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.
Clare Short
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I think liberals have a lot of good ideas, actually. But I’ve been pigeonholed, and I’m quite comfortable with it.
66
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
67
For people who seem so hell-bent on multiculturalism, why can’t liberals understand that free enterprise/freedom is a part of the American Culture?
68
Liberals tried to oust Attorney General Jeff Sessions when news emerged that his congressional testimony did not clearly articulate his minimal, par-for-the-course communications with the Russian ambassador while he was a Senator.
69
We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.
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Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn’t truly one of them. The release of his tax returns should settle the matter once and for all: He’s not only to be accepted, but admired and emulated – and by liberals as well as conservatives.
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‘E pluribus unum’ is perhaps the most obnoxious motto the Founders could have come up with, as far as liberals are concerned. They don’t mind the e pluribus part – they love to note the things that divide and separate us. But they positively despise the unum part.
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If you asked a team of expert psychologists and sociological researchers to come up with a design that was sure to infuriate and offend liberals in America, they’d probably come up with what we call the Great Seal.
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The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.
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Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
75
Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.
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While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.
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Conservatives watch Fox News and read ‘Breitbart.’ Liberals watch MSNBC and read ‘HuffPost.’ When we agree, it’s the truth; when we differ, it’s fake news.
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I’d like liberals to listen to my show and not feel offended. The fact that the love of my life was a liberal, I think that probably surprises people who expect me to spew just contempt for the other side.
79
Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.
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When a criminal breaks into your home I’ll let the liberals call the lawyer. I’m going to call Smith & Wesson.
81
First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.
Evan Sayet
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We’ve finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don’t want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.
83
Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
Bob Black
84
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America’s self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
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Whereas all liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think.
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A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is liberal and attacks conservatives left and right, spouts the right words, they get away with anything.
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There’s the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who’s afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that’s my problem with my fellow liberals.
89
You can’t improve what you can’t measure, and liberals have resisted any kind of meaningful measurement of success in the classroom for decades. Instead of focusing on the three R’s, liberals have thrown up a barrage of silly things designed to distract us all from their awful stewardship of the schools.
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We Hindus have a long-recognised tradition of being religious liberals by nature.
91
It’s not that white guys shouldn’t be allowed to engage in discussions on race in America. But there’s nothing more exhausting than white male liberals’ dogmatisms on race that were clearly formed during a conversation they had with that one black guy they met back in college.
92
I remember thinking Democrats and liberals were the good guys. They cared about the little guy. They cared about poor people. They cared about minorities.
93
I would also argue… that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small ‘l’ liberals, we Canadians.
Dalton McGuinty
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There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I.
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The liberals love you until you say something critical about Hillary Clinton.
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What liberals mean by ‘goose-stepping’ or ‘ethnic cleansing‘ is generally something along the lines of ‘eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.’ But they can’t say that, or people would realize they’re crazy.
97
I wrote ‘Bamboozled’ to expose and uncover the lies liberals have used for generations to exploit minorities for the vote.
Angela McGlowan
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We all know liberals and Democrats who look down on certain people, and there is such a thing as P.C.
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Breaking through glass ceilings isn’t reserved for liberals.
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But political parties must claim to be radically different from one another, and political journalism must play along, or else why exist? So the Liberals and Tories concentrate on what does distinguish them: their leaders. That in itself just about guarantees a campaign of ad hominem gooning.
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I’d say I’m a true conservative. Liberals have got a monopoly on protecting the environment, or all the cool technology, and I don’t think we should cede that territory.
Thomas Massie
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Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout – that, in essence, you’re telling the middle class, ‘Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.’
103
A cursory look at coverage of the so-called ‘Free Tommybrigade, centered around the alleged censorship of Tommy Robinson, a notorious anti-Islam campaigner, reveals how liberals shun defending the free-speech rights of the unpalatable.
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Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.
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Almost everything I think we’ve accomplished for the good of the country has been because of liberals against conservative opposition.
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The Great Seal has got it all – everything liberals despise is there, front and center.
107
Republicans traditionally say, ‘oh, we’ll cut domestic spending, but we won’t touch the military.’ The liberals – the ones who are good – will say, ‘oh, we’ll cut the military, but we won’t cut domestic spending.’
108
When you don’t behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.
109
The difference between the Liberals and the Conservatives is that the Conservatives are being honest that what they’re planning to do is not going to get us past 30 per cent greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
110
We do not have a racial crisis; we have an ideology crisis. We have socialists, Marxists, and liberals who have hijacked my race.
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Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists.
112
Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone‘s motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone’s Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings.
113
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
114
The problem with most liberals – myself included – is we tend to think we’re post-racial: that we’ve got a handle on things because we’re not racists.
115
Open nominations means it is local Liberals who choose who gets to be their representative. But what that doesn’t mean is that somebody can behave any which way and bully other people out of the nomination and then be the last person standing.
116
You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don’t want them in power.
117
Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others.
118
Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.
119
Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil libertiesprovided we’re only talking about criminals.
120
I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
Dar Williams
121
If the Liberals and NDP were to take office they would take the benefits away and raise taxes.
122
No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.
123
When it comes to explaining the phenomenon of right-wing populism, liberals are likely to argue both that the populist era has exposed a darkness always present at the heart of conservative politics and that a toxic, post-truth new-media ecosystem has greased the skids for President Trump, Brexit and the rest.
124
It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.
125
The radicalized populace in liberal havens like California and New York seek to impose their socialist utopian ideology on those law-abiding, everyday Americans who live in what elite, coastal liberals derisively refer to as ‘flyover country.’
126
Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.
127
I think liberals would love to see the conservative party be more moderate, more middle of the road. I mean, my gosh, what do you call John McCain? Some would argue, what do you call Mitt Romney?
128
I save all my good e-mails. Listen to this one: ‘You liberals should be deported.’
129
When students and liberals initially occupied Tahrir Square, it looked like it might be a passing thing.
130
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they’ve stolen.
Mort Sahl
131
They’re building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.
132
If the Liberals’ law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.
133
White liberals are the most racist people I’ve ever met in my entire life. They define everything by race. They want people to be able to get into college with lower grades and lower school scores simply because they are African American. That’s insane.
134
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don’t have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.
135
I think what irritates both conservatives and liberals alike is when news outlets pretend that they don’t have an agenda but then clearly do, be it in the editorial decisions they make and the guests they have and the material that they cover.
136
There are no more liberals They’ve all been mugged.
James Q. Wilson
137
Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that’s about it, because everything they do fails.
138
He was my favorite senator… I love him. He made the liberals squeal.
Robert Novak
139
Liberals watch MSNBC; conservatives watch Fox. They don’t want to hear ten seconds of a liberal on Fox, and they don’t want to hear ten seconds of a conservative on MSNBC.
140
The liberals think government exists to fix what’s wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there’s nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won’t cure.
141
People of all political persuasions – conservatives, moderates, and liberals alike – need to dedicate themselves once again to preserving the moral foundation of our society.
142
Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can’t take their own side in an argument.
143
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
144
In practice, conservatives are no less inclined than liberals to adopt superior stances or to tell people how to live their lives.
145
There aren’t any liberals left in New York. They’ve all been mugged by now.
James Q. Wilson
146
The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
147
It’s not merely that conservatives are better at selling their product, or that they happen to have an easier-and undoubtedly simpler-ideological product to sell. It’s that they know what they are selling. Liberals in general and Obama in particular cannot say the same.
148
Liberals don’t believe in the ultimate concept of self-reliance, which is why they look to the government for stability.
149
I guess we’d better start getting used to the consequences and permit the American liberals to squeak and squeal us to ultimate defeat.
150
I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware.
Brennan Manning
151
If liberals no longer pride themselves on being the adults in the room, the bulwark against the whims of the mob, our national descent into chaos will be complete.
152
It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word ‘evil’ as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.
153
There are some in black robes sitting on federal benches all across this country. They’re Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and even conservatives that pervert the Constitution.
154
Liberals have invented whole college majorspsychology, sociology and women‘s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody‘s fault.
155
Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries.
156
Many of the ex-hippies who started companies like Apple, or the early online bulletin boards dedicated to organic food and following the Grateful Dead, were an odd combination of liberals and libertarians.
157
We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.
158
During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
159
You always want to have a mix of conservatives and liberals on a panel, especially on election night.
160
Justin Trudeau tries to say that Canada is back. I say the Liberals are back – back to ignoring the rules and abusing the privileges of power.
161
Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He’s a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn’t as smart as he thinks he is.
162
Roosevelt got a chance to name an amazing nine justices of the Supreme Court. He was not namby-pamby on this question. He wanted people who shared his views, he wanted liberals, and he wanted lots of them.
163
You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.
164
What mattered about Alan Kurdi’s photograph was that it made Canadians very angry, and the Conservatives, Liberals and New Democrats ended up competing with each other over which party was offering the most generous refugee policy.
165
I often debate liberals on Fox News Channel who tend to start yelling and attacking when they run out of facts or common sense. I suppose these folks figure if they bow up and get in our faces, we’ll just back down and see the world their way.
166
Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows – conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those people to have something in common is real interesting to me.
167
Liberals always cry wolf.
168
I certainly know that the NDP and the Liberals talk about understanding climate science; they just haven‘t put forward anything that suggests they actually understand it.
169
Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.
170
And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we’re just getting started.
171
The test for honest Americans or honest liberals is, are they going to defend a president they disagree with when he’s being victimized.
172
This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don’t like the bureaucracy. That’s because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.
173
Welfare became a term of opprobrium – a contentious, often vindictive area of political conflict in which liberals and conservatives clashed and children were lost sight of.
174
Liberals are very much afraid of conservative women, and here’s the reason why – more people agree with us. They want the government to have less control over their lives.
175
It’s become a running joke among the public, and liberals have lost all credibility when it comes to climate science because their arguments have become so ridiculous and so obviously disconnected from reality.
176
We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.
177
More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here’s one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds – particularly if it sounds bad – recognize the pattern of defamation.
178
The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people.
179
While millionaire Liberals like Justin Trudeau may want higher gas prices, hardworking Canadian families definitely do not.
180
All my friends were liberals and I grew up in a really liberal family.
181
We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can’t break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.
Peter MacKay
182
Democrats couldn’t care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can’t look at themselves in the mirror.
183
Liberals have been committed to the principles of human rights, international stability, and international justice. They have also sought international solutions to those problems which have demanded collective attention.
184
The only threat is a growing pushback from militant liberals who seek to destroy free expression as they look to limit the speech of anyone who has feelings they find objectionable. It makes comics tentative to push boundaries and freely talk about the thoughts in their heads. That part is terrible for development.
185
I don’t live like liberals in a 5,000 square foot mansion.
186
We’re liberals, so quitting is not an option. We will push through the hard days so we can celebrate together on the good ones.
187
The 2016 election unquestionably deepened the divide between liberals and conservatives.
188
Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don’t know what they’re talking about.
189
While many liberals have dismissed the idea of political correctness as a right-wing manufactured hysteria, it is in fact a real thing.
190
The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn’t give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.
191
Google that, ‘old white men,’ and you’ll find that comes out of the mouths of liberals in a daily basis across the country. They’re disparaging a group of people, and it’s time somebody stood up for that group of people.
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Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples’ money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people’s freedom and security.
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One day before I die, I will finally understand why liberals, especially Jewish liberals, fail to fully support Israel in its right to survive terror attacks.
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Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.
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I guess the news is this: If you’re a Republican and you smile, liberals don’t like it. Maybe that’s because Democrats are afraid that I’ve been able to show an optimistic vision for this country.
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Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don’t pay attention.
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The Liberals would love to have people believe that the choice is a carbon tax or nothing. I reject that.
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Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.
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Liberals love to screech about ‘free speech,’ but it’s pretty clear to most of us that they don’t really tolerate any speech but theirs.
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Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can’t stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.
Linda Chavez
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Embryonic stem cell research wears no political stripes – it is embraced by conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.
Diana DeGette
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don’t remember it being very heavy-handed.
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Free speech is carelessly tossed to one side in order to silence views and people that liberals label as intolerant.
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Liberals would prefer it if the bald eagle on the Great Seal was holding olive branches in both talons, or, better, an olive branch in one, and maybe a soft cushion in the other, to entice our enemies to lie down and snooze.
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It’s not that conservatives don’t care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It’s a difference of the mind, not of the heart.
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Liberals amuse me. I am a socialist.
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I like to discuss things. I am open: I like to discuss with liberals better than I do with conservatives.
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Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.
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2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.
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Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
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White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.
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Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of the voting population that was not anticommunist in 1961 was miniscule.