Before this learning experience I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons and liberals who supported them.

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

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.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments and if need be supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important particularly in an uncertain changing world.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class race time place background family and even his nation.

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

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

If the Liberals' law is passed will sex education in the schools including elementary grades include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.