Left-Leaning Quotes

American Jews are overwhelmingly liberal. By "liberal," I mean, basically, support for the rule of law, support for human rights, support for peace; and on all those counts - rule of law, human rights, peace - Israel's record has become indefensible.

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word...

Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.

I don't mind being called a liberal. I just don't really think it's true.

The center of gravity of the American people is way to the left of the center of gravity of Congress and, in many ways, to the left of the national Democratic Party.

I'm an independent, but I got to admit I lean Democratic.

[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist.

Left-leaning bloggers have had a tremendous impact on the Democratic Party.

Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.

My mum is very political - left wing - and my dad was in the advertising business. They were both from the East Coast: Boston and New York City, respectively.

[Democrats] have gotten rid of the mask, and they can't help themselves. And they are exposing who they really are every day now in random acts of special kind of stupid, to which and from which we certainly can benefit. I mean, I'm all for as many people as possible seeing who they are, but I know what you were doing with your class, you know, no booing, we must respect the president. I totally agree with that.

A dog is a liberal... He wants to please everybody.

California just is so deeply left, particularly coastal. It just is.

The classic one for me is one of my favorite images - left-versus-right political-spectrum image. I was trying to visualize the concepts on the political spectrum. I'm left-leaning, and I discovered as I was doing it that I had an impulse to make the left-hand side appear better than the right-hand side. That was manifesting in the way I was choosing certain words, framing certain ideas. I shared it with a few people, and they all said, "Oh my God, this is really biased." I hadn't seen it at all.

There is no question: the Hollywood crowd predominantly supports Democrats.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

I'm center left, but I think - most things, left on some, center on some, right on very few.

The Democrats are now an upscale party.

Google has long been a leftist company.

You can say you're a liberal and everybody laughs and it's a good time.

But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.

CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.

Hillary Clinton is also not a very exciting, inspiring candidate to a lot of the left-leaning Democratic base, especially in Iowa.

'The Rachel Maddow Show' is a piece of sleight of hand presented as a cable news show. It is TV entertainment at its finest.