#liberals

There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals. ↗

— Paul Begala

#definition #fellow #fight #great #liberal

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#agencies #been #birth #conservatives #endowed

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill. ↗

— Mike Pence

#capitol #capitol hill #declaration #democrats #economic

When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith & Wesson. ↗

— Rick Perry

#breaks #call #criminal #going #home

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. ↗

— Rick Perry

#argument #believe #constitution #core #core values

You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#barack #barack obama #bit #business #businesses

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#common ground #conservatives #find #ground #liberals

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#been #century #conservatives #liberals #moment

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. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#cherish #clause #conservatives #equal #equal protection

The "takings" clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#clause #conservatives #equal #equal protection #fifth