Alan Colmes Quotes

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

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.

Conservatives believe that human nature is what makes us imperfectible. Liberals believe that human nature can be changed and perfected.

The advantage that Democrats have is that they're a big-tent party.

Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

The Democratic Party is always going to be a diverse group of people who are yelling at each other and fighting over what's the best way to do something.

I don't even know what progressive is anymore, to be honest!

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

One of my quests from the beginning has been to inform people, educate people, sort of train people, if you will, to spot liberalism. The belief that liberalism is the source of the vast majority of our problems, clearly not all, but the vast majority, liberals and liberalism, and the more people trained to spot it, I think, have always believed that it would go a long way to go in defeating it. I think it does need to be defeated.

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

I think 'progressive' is different than 'liberal' - I know a lot of people use them interchangeably - but I think I'm far more progressive than I am liberal.

A multi-racial team with a black captain means a lot to the country. There will always be negative political parties in South Africa, but hopefully it's something to take forwards.

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'll put my conservative record up against anybody's record. I have a 10-year career in public service, and I'm proud of the things I've been able to accomplish.

Liberalism has become a special kind of stupid.

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.

Conservatism solves problems. Libralism blows 'em up.

I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?

Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. Right now we [americans] need a good, optimistic, conservative opportunity ideology that is totally geared toward lifting up the poor. That's what I most want to see in candidates.

Liberals have many tails and chase them all.

I have issues with liberals, which includes many gay people. I have found some liberal gays to be extremely intolerant of other points of view.

We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.