Julian Castro Quotes

I'm a Democrat in that I work towards progressive things, but I also am laser-like focused in my desire to actually get things done and not just talk about it.

Yes, I'm proud to be a liberal.

I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.

I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win.

If I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself credulous. The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.

The wise policymaker doesn't assume that any policy adopted in good faith will have good results. Instead, he or she weighs the likely outcome of any new policy based on facts and experience - not sentiments and dreams.

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

She's going to do what her donors want. That's who Nancy Pelosi is. Not remotely progressive.

I do believe that being in public office is all about making choices. And if I'm president, I would steer this nation in a direction where we embrace progressive values.

Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

I think it's important that the President of the United States consult as widely as possible with those who have different views so that he can - he or she - can make the most informed decisions.

I am a social liberal.

I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology.

I'm an independent thinker. I am a woman. I am a Republican. And I think for myself, and I decide where I vote and how I vote.

I'm the type of person who responds to facts.

It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

I respect and believe skeptics.

One of the big concerns is the increasing disrespect for the scientific method and for policies that aren't based on facts and evidence.

It has long been noted that two of the Conservative Party's great strengths have been the loyalty of its members and its pragmatic approach to policy challenges.

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

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.

I think Millennials are more progressive, more socially progressive, much more concerned about economic issues that impact the poor and middle class, and so that basically shows me that the Democratic party will have a bright future.

I'm not your quintessential liberal.