Molly Ivins Quotes

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

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal would be about socializing.

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

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

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

A liberal is a person whose interests aren’t at stake at the moment

I'm a liberal. The "L" word! ... I love it. Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind... I'm a total, total, total liberal and proud of it. And I think it's outrageous to say "The L word". I mean, excuse me. They should be damn lucky that they were liberals here. Liberals gave more to the population of the United States than any other group.

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

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

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

I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

I am certainly a liberal.

I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet 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 believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches.

Liberals can understand everything, but people who don’t understand them.

What is political correctness, if not essentially redemptive speech? Soon liberalism had become a cultural identity that offered Americans a way to think of themselves as decent people. To be liberal was to be good.

I am a social liberal.

'Liberal' is a great word - from the root, 'liberty,' which means free.

If we want to be the big-tent party, if we want to be the party that is seen as the party that really stands up for the working class, we have to welcome people in and not just believe a certain way.

The Right, much more than the Left, believes in the notion of live and let live, and that is the true definition of tolerance.

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