Three simple words - freedom justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.
If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.
If this liberal potential is properly channeled we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.
Liberals it has been said are generous with other peoples' money except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family we will serve God we will serve this constitutional republic we will serve America.
There will be trying times during Obama's presidency and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be as it was under F.D.R. a fighting faith unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.
My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and thus his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.