Liberal Values Quotes

My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.

Never again should we Democrats wear the livery of the conservative.

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.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

Give me a bad democracy, a sick democracy, but democracy!

When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.

I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.

But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.

I do take for granted, probably, the fact that I grew up in New York City, one of the most liberal places on earth, with bleeding-heart, liberal parents who took me to see 'Rent' and Terrence McNally plays from a very young age.

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.

Over the course of history, the answer to nationalism has been liberalism, and I believe it can be the answer again.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.

My mother is a very liberal wife and mother, so there was no peer pressure to marry.

The good news is that a vast majority of Indians from different religions see no contradiction between religiosity and liberalism, keep India stable. We religious liberals don't talk loudly enough.

If it’s liberal to feed the hungry and house the homeless, you can call me a liberal. If it’s liberal to make sure a young mother can see a doctor when her baby’s sick, call me a liberal.

The DNA of a true Hindu is liberal. We are, by essence, 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 believe there are millions of people across the country who are crying out for someone to stand up for liberal values.

My childhood shaped the person I became. It was artistic, musical and left-wing.

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

I was brought up by parents who embraced the 1960s and taught me that being faithful isn't the be-all and end-all.

As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.

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

Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.