Henry Campbell-Bannerman Quotes

It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?

I am a liberal. I have always been a liberal.

Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period.

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.

The principles of the SPD have remained the same for 150 years: democracy, human dignity, justice and inclusion. We will never change those principles.

Liberalism is never gonna be that tiny or small.

Liberalism is probably the root of most of the problems they face in life, including raising their kids, including educating their kids, practically every walk of life, because everything today's political.

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is.

I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.

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

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

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.

I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.

I'm a right-wing fiscal conservative and a social liberal.

I consider myself a progressive Republican. I am liberal on social issues.

I am an anti-Conservative politician, and that's how I would lead our party.

Liberalism has become a special kind of stupid.

I would say that, unfortunately, the word liberal has been redefined over the last 30 years as if it is a bad thing. But liberalism is a great American philosophy. Being a liberal is one of the best things you can be. I don't think they get a fair shake at all in the conservative mainstream media. So maybe there's some intimidation there.

No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a What Would the Market Do bumper sticker.

McCarthy generally, as an individual, was a liberal. He was, in economic philosophy and a lot of other things, extremely liberal.

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

Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help.