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"A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him."

"A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything."

"Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican."

"To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree."

"The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena."

"American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon."

"The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given."

"It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality."
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"Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy."


"There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms."


"A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term."


"I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration."


"We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives."


"The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference."


"There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions."


"True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going."
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