George Clooney Quotes

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values.

The word liberal has been employed as the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease -- the kind that could be contracted merely by going to a foreign movie or ordering a decaf latte, or worse, a glass of French wine.

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.

Whatever you want to call it, socialism, liberalism, this is who they are. They corrupt everything. Folks, their targets are the institutions and traditions that have given the world its morality, its virtue. The institutions and traditions which have defined freedom and liberty. That's what the left attacks.

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin."

There's a lot of people that don't understand liberalism, there are a lot of people that I think, by definition, still need to be informed and educated that it isn't the soft, loving, compassionate stuff that it's portrayed to be. Trump speaks for himself. Who Trump is and what he's doing is not a mystery to anybody. It's the exact opposite of a mystery. It's in your face.

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.

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

You liberals are going to have to understand something: I'm not the one that wants to put limits on anybody. You people are.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

Let's get the elephant out of the room. I'm a conservative Democrat.

Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

I would like to be one of the people responsible for getting Elizabeth Warren out of politics. She's a nightmare. The Left's holding her up as the second coming of Hillary Clinton; Lord knows we don't need the first.

Conservatives have to be more than just Liberals who are good at math.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical 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.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

Yes, I'm proud to be a liberal.

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

I wonder if it's conservative or liberal [ inalienable rights idea], because when we think of liberal thought, when we think about the relation to liberty, we're talking about traditional conservatism - as opposed to today's conservatism, which no longer represents those views.

Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.