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Let no-one be in any doubt - the Liberal Democrats are not about to cede our emphatic, sincere and long-standing green credentials for some spray on aerosol version.

Liberal proponents of homosexual 'marriage' flatter themselves by casting their agenda as part of a modern civil rights struggle, ... But there is nothing noble about advancing the final frontier of a sexual revolution that has resulted in tens of thousands of men getting sick or dying young because they engage in homosexual perversions.

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Liberal Democracy is all about extending choice. Give people the option to decide their retirement age, and you immediately extend their freedom in a very significant way.

Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government should go to the cross fire of adversarial review.

Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.

Lieberman has high marks on Iraq but he is still very much a liberal and we are Republicans.

Learning how to communicate your ideas on paper is very important. Get a good, strong foundation in the liberal arts, philosophy, mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry , history. Get a good, well-rounded education.

so I hope we can build a consensus around what is a very liberal position on this issue, and that we can give Australians the right that New Zealanders have.

She's an inkblot -- the last person who is going to look at Roe v. Wade and say, 'the reasoning is flawed,' and tell us why, ... She'll just follow the path of every justice in the last 25 years who comes to the bench without a developed philosophy and ends up in the liberal camp. People whose intellect is as thin and dubious as hers will be too intellectually timid to challenge orthodoxy.

She's gone down the liberal road, and I've gone down the conservative road, ... You've seen the jobs being chased away from your state, and we've seen jobs grow in our state.

Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.

She is a Microsoft program officer. She is a liberal activist. She's never held office. That is not a recipe for a top-tier congressional election.

Mr. Martin is campaigning in Montreal, which was considered not too long ago the strongest set of Liberal ridings in the country. That's an encouraging sign. Indications on the ground are good everywhere.

Mr. Tenet had a monumental task to rebuild human intelligence-gathering capabilities devastated by eight years of liberal Clinton administration policies,

One person can change history, ... Nobody in the liberal press or any kind of press watches CBN, so it could've gone completely unnoticed. But I'm a Chavez fan.

No one - not a conservative or liberal or whatever - can stand back and 'define' what marriage means. Other people's marriages have nothing to do with mine; whether my neighbors are divorced or gay or widowed will not lead me to change anything about how my wife and I deal with each other or how we raise our children.

Muslims come from all political parties, ranging from the Bloc and the NDP (to) the Liberal party. They make up their minds based on what is good for Canada, not necessarily is good for the Canadian Islamic Congress.

No one will ever be held responsible, not legally, not criminally, not politically, as long as this Liberal government is in power, ... A culture of waste, mismanagement and corruption is not going to fix itself.

Now the echo of your anger toward the coalition system which centers on Mori and the Liberal Democratic Party is spreading across the whole country.

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

If we don't, we could end up with Democrats in the Legislature and, Heaven forbid, a liberal like Chris Bell for governor.

If they want to vote against him, you know darn well they're captives of these ... very liberal outside groups ... and they're demanding they vote against him even though they don't have one good reason to, ... I really don't believe that's the case but if that happens, then you can see why we're in such a partisan gridlock here in Washington, because the Democrats can't even support someone this good.

If this is any way a front or any way connected to the Liberal party, then I have serious concerns about it,

I don't consider myself a liberal or not,

I am determined that we will continue to develop a modern, forward looking liberal agenda.

I am fighting to revive faith, not just in the Liberal party, but in politics itself. I'm a devoted Liberal, I've been one all my life. That's why I'm in the fight to renew the party I love. All my life has been inspired by Canada, and now it's my turn to try and inspire my fellow Canadians.

Cast your vote to restore Britain's reputation on the international stage. Vote Liberal Democrat if, like us, you say never again to an episode like Iraq.

But the very next day, the Liberal government said they would not fund the strategy even though it was passed by the House,

Bush will paint Kerry as being a tax-and-spend liberal and Kerry will paint bush as only providing tax cuts for the rich.

Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of useful work of the world.

But a big part of the reason this has happened is the Liberal government has allowed communications with the Americans to break down entirely.

I'm a strong Liberal. I've voted Liberal all my life. I probably will again. But not this time. It's time for a change.

I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.

I'm a liberal, unrepentantly so, but I often wonder and fear what would happen if I were confronted by any of my liberal beliefs, by somebody who actually who wanted to put them into practice.

I did not dwell on the issue of Europe during either the 2001 or the 2005 campaigns - despite it being a pivotal personal concern and despite seeing it as something of a litmus test for liberal democracy.

Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.

I don't think we have to wait for the second report. It's up to the Canadian people to judge this party, the Liberal party.

I expect that those Liberal Party traditions and the constitutions would remain in play as we discuss how the lists are going to be formed.

For me, this is a great opportunity to serve and ultimately it will be a decision of the delegates of the Liberal Party as to who they want to be their leader.

If it's the case that certain kinds of trade are not done with Cuba right now because they're in U.S. dollars, then that's fine -- changing to the euro might help that. If it's a case where using euros to conduct more liberal trade with Europe, then that's certainly of benefit, as well.

If it's a city of peace and tolerance, I think it's hypocritical to say that and promote that and be liberal and not allow different points view.

He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own

He is firming up his support from liberal women.

He felt that if he was able to build enormous support for fighting poverty, then that wouldn't seem something that was liberal and off on the left.

He came in as a liberal Democrat and has governed as a moderate-to-liberal Democrat, and that's why liberal Democrats are mostly satisfied. That's what he is.

There is mounting anger in Western business circles over the lack of radical liberal reforms and the failure to establish a functioning legal system.

There is no elections scheduled in the country soon and the opposition is weak, so the president may easily initiate some liberal steps and reforms.

The people who are involved in these type of shootings are not the type of individuals who are going to adhere to a gun ban or ever register a gun, period. The Liberal party has proven time and time again that they're more concerned with the optics than the practicalities of these issues.

We've got to win in the heartland of America, ... Democrats are more liberal than the country as a whole.

We've gone from serving people who are very liberal to grandmas wearing toe rings. We sell to all ages, primarily women 32 to 42 years old.

We support the black candidates because we're sure they're going to vote in the liberal interest.

Historically scientific research has been more popular, and liberal arts has lagged behind. The awards for the arts are much smaller.

Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.

Underlying our Liberal philosophy is a conciliation of two great human ideals: individual freedom and equal opportunity. I propose we add another: a healthy environment.

He wants to remove any official or diplomat with liberal thinking or anybody who backs better relations with the West.

He wanted to continue the work he was able to begin under a Liberal government. And he felt the best way for him to serve his constituents and get results and to focus on a file that is of huge importance to Canada -- namely softwood lumber -- that by being the Trade Minister he might just be able to make that breakthrough that will undoubtedly bring huge benefits back to Canada.

Know-it-all liberal celebrities are in our faces every day, telling people how to live, what to buy, and often how to vote. Children need to understand that just because these people show up on television doesn't mean they know what's best for the rest of America. In fact, it's usually quite the opposite!

I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't a movement in due course within the Liberal Party and within the National Party to throw these people out.

I would say it's more to do with George Bush than a potential Liberal victory in Canada. That's one, two, three times Bush has been declared victorious and the market likes that.

John Brogden leaves the Liberal Party as he found it: leaderless, directionless, divided and without a vision for the people of NSW,

It also came at a time that the networks weren't liberal about what they showed, and the network panicked when they realized they'd bought a show with a beautiful half-naked woman who moves in with a bachelor and says, 'What can I do for you?' I got a 22-page memo, with specific guidelines of what we couldn't do.

It is a big score for us, no doubt about it. It takes a potential Liberal leadership candidate away from the Liberals.

I think that not only will an engineering program be good for Marshall, but Marshall will be good for engineering. With the strong liberal arts programs offered at the University in fields like language and science, I think that our program will produce students ready to compete in a global job market.

It is my determination that we, as a party, continue to make that fundamental restatement of liberal values in the politics of our country.

I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

I was a little punk rocker and was pregnant with Sarah when I went to university. I had her in the Christmas holidays of the first term. It was 1979, and UCL was very proud of its reputation as a liberal university, so they were very helpful.

I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.

I think these people ought to give their head a shake and ask themselves how much of that money would have even come to the Liberal party if I hadn't been there.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, in the enlightened liberal semi-socialist California circles in which I often move, that Uber is evil.

just another seedy attempt by the liberal media to embarrass me.

Just as we Liberal Democrats opposed the flawed logic of that war in Iraq - we will oppose the flawed government claim that we have to surrender our fundamental rights in order to improve our security.

is certainly more liberal than mainstream voters in the state are.

I say these things every day. Liberal critics don't hear me say it.

Pataki might think ethanol will win him farm votes in Iowa. But when he's carrying the weight of his liberal views on abortion and gay rights, a boutique tax cut for alternative fuels won't put much in Pataki's tank for a presidential race.

Party label doesn't matter nearly as much anymore at the mayoral level. The real long-term trend everywhere is moving away form the party operations that rooted urban politics in patronage, but that's not to say there isn't still a strong liberal social leaning in many cities.

Party label doesn't matter nearly as much anymore at the mayoral level, ... The real long-term trend everywhere is moving away form the party operations that rooted urban politics in patronage, but that's not to say there isn't still a strong liberal social leaning in many cities.

Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.

Some of the speeches were never heard and were only distributed in the newspapers. If the Liberal candidate was seen to be trying very hard, Tories would kidnap him and take him away, and the same for the Tories.

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

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

My major was liberal arts, but I studied a lot of theater, Fordham had an amazing theater program - really comprehensive.

Many Democratic elected officials are critical of the president's handling of the war and overall performance, and, at the same time, do not want to be seen as just anti-war liberal Democrats. So, they are trying to have it both ways, of being critical of the president, but, at the same time, supporting our men and women who are fighting.

I wish that Iraq had not happened - and that we had not lost touch with so many of our natural supporters. But this should have provided an opportunity for the Liberal Democrats as a party. Yet their protest gains are now diminishing.

I think one of the difficulties here is that the Liberal Party has been so badly run and has relied so long on taxpayers' money to supplement its activities that I don't think the Liberal Party has been able to pay for polling, to pay for these other things.

I think he set a great standard going forward for judicial nominees, as to laying out the proper role of the court. That's one of the things I think we've lost. We've gotten into this battle, we want a liberal or a conservative. No, what we want is someone who decides the case before them as narrowly as possible.

It is by no means enough that an officer be capable...He should be a gentleman of liberal education, refined, manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor... No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.'

We need a liberal agenda in which government resists the temptation to interfere in the lives of individuals but is equally determined to play an active role where creative action can advance the liberties of all.

The 1998 missile strike on the Sudan was an unannounced, unprovoked attack that destroyed that Third World nation's only medicine factory. Yet it provoked no opposition outcry on the left. The Clinton air strike violated every principle of the current liberal critique of Bush foreign policy.

I would like the import policies for shooting equipment to be a bit more liberal so that we do not have to wait long for them.

I would advise an incoming gay professor to stay closeted depending on the department they work in, for some are more liberal and accepting than others. Prior to becoming tenured, they may be judged on their sexual preference instead of their expertise, intelligence and research.

Most of my Muslim friends are politically liberal in a lot of senses. They are far more open-minded than the Christian circles I grew up in, which are, you know, actually scarier. That said, too, I still identify with the teachings of Jesus. I don't think they resemble or relate to modern-day Christianity.

Why, when this prime minister claims that aboriginal issues are his top priority, does the Liberal premier of Ontario say he's 'missing in action' in this crisis?

When I took the job, we spoke about pursuing a liberal economic policy. Now, the state has evolved in quite the opposite direction.

Without Chafee, you're going to get an extremely liberal Democrat in that seat.

Using the liberal definition of what you include in worldwide sales, GM may not be the biggest automaker a year from now.

Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.

Wabash is one of America's greatest liberal arts colleges, rich in tradition and even richer in promise and possibilities. To be chosen to lead Wabash to new heights of achievement as its next president is a great honor.

Voters quite like Charles Kennedy, but there is a question mark over whether he's someone they can see sitting in 10 Downing Street deciding the future of our country. There's quite a big step up for the Liberal Democrats to take if they are to be taken seriously as a potential party of government.

You have the trade issue, which is important. You have health care issues, which are very important. You have war and peace issues, economic priority issues, which are very important. And on those issues you can bring together coalitions, which redefine the normal paradigm which a lot of the corporate media creates when they talk about liberal and conservative.