Rod Lurie Quotes

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.

I am certainly a liberal.

Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'

There's something I've been wanting to say for a long time. I'm a liberal, and I'm proud of it. In fact, I was probably a little more liberal than Hubert was. I just wanted to say that.

I'm a liberal Democrat, and I state that proudly.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

I'm a liberal - and I'm not running from that word!

I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I'm a feminist. That's how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven't grown out of it and probably never will.

I'm happy to be called a liberal.

If I, as a liberal, didn't speak out against those who would squelch the free speech of conservatives, I wouldn't deserve to call myself a liberal.

My side, I am a liberal more than a Democrat.

I am personally quite liberal.

I am a social liberal.

I wouldn't characterise myself as a bleeding heart liberal, whatever that is.

I am proud to be a progressive.

We want to have a conversation about what does it mean to be liberal in the 21st century and how do we go about creating that kind of a society.

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, and political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.

I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.