The American preoccupation with promoting democracy abroad fits into a larger liberal view about the sources of a stable, legitimate, secure, and prosperous international order.
If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.
Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries.
I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.
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.
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help.
Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its authors.
Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't make people be moral, but they believe it can end poverty. Neither group attempts to explain why government is so clumsy and destructive in one area but a paragon of efficiency and benevolence in the other.
If liberals think they are losing elections because of the conservative bias in the media, they may as well give up right now.
It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.
Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.
I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.
The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.
Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
I have some advice: Unless she is pregnant or handicapped, don't give up a seat to a woman unless you KNOW she is well over 60. Trust me on this, even if I am a liberal.
Conservatives believe that some problems have no solution, that they can only be mitigated at best. Liberals believe that most every problem has a government solution.
You need to have a liberal point of view for a society to grow.
