John Cusack

Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

American Actor

P. J. O'Rourke

Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.

American Comedian

Thomas Sowell

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

American Economist

Frankie Boyle

Trump's one liberal policy seems to be his desire to pump more funding into mental health - which I've taken the liberty of interpreting as a massive cry for help.

Scottish Comedian

Hilary Mason

I'm a huge fan of the liberal arts approach of teaching you to think, analyze, and communicate, then sending you out into the world to cause trouble.

English Actress

Howard Dean

The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country.

American Politician

Tucker Carlson

One area of liberal phenomenon I support is female bi-sexuality.

American Journalist

Dean Cain

The truth is, I am conservative, but socially, I'm very liberal.

Jonathan Haidt

Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.

American Psychologist

Ed Davey

Liberal Democrats cherish freedom of movement.

British Politician

Describes someone who accepts new ideas easily and doesn't hold strictly to tradition.

Open-mindedness

Often the opposite of conservative, suggesting a relaxed approach to traditional norms and values.

Not Conservative

Reflects a giving nature, not limited to material things but also kindness or compliments.

Plenty to Give

Indicates someone doesn't hold back when providing or sharing something.

Generously Applied

Refers to a person's political or social stance rather than implying they're generous.

Liberal Individuals

Someone can be liberal by nature, not just because they align with a political group.

Not Always Political

Directly refers to political parties named Liberal, common in several countries.

Specific Party

Can indicate someone's political allegiance or their favored policies.

Political Identity

Reflects an attitude that embraces diversity and varying points of view.

Acceptance Widely

Goes beyond politics to describe an openness in personal and social contexts.

More Than Politics

 i don't need to show of hands because we all have the same political stereotypes we all know that it's uh that it's bill in this case the stereotype corresponds to a reality it really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called openness to experience people are high on openness to experience just

The moral roots of...

 to what we think we have. Now, we can ask these questions, by the way, not just about wealth. We can ask it about other things as well. So for example, we asked people from different parts of the world about this question, people who are liberals and conservatives, and they gave us basically the same answer.

How equal do we want the...

 the problem in the first place leads me to three wee liberals can be our own worst enemy sometimes we think we own the high moral ground and that tends to cause us to disrespect and demonize people who are not part of the choir it also leads to a somewhat distorted worldview we're being right is

The climate change...

 looks so much like the one I walked away from four years ago. We've broken the world into us and them, only emerging from our bunkers long enough to lob rhetorical grenades at the other camp. We write off half the country as out-of-touch liberal elites or racist misogynist bullies.

I grew up in the...

 where we see a woman who votes for Democrats right who identifies as a liberal or progressive and what she's threatened or where she feels threatened or she feels like somebody who's black has just said to her can you follow the same rules that everybody else has to

LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...

 That same target marketing algorithm that feeds you more of the products you like to buy also feeds you more of the news that you like to hear. I had been living in an online universe that just reflected my worldview back to me. So my timeline was pretty liberal.

A Black man goes...

 and expertise as a "Drawn from my study of the liberal sciences and from that careful training to which I admit that at no part of my life I have ever been disinclined." And finally, you can demonstrate disinterest, or that you're not motivated by personal gain.

How to use rhetoric to...

 and lies have equal status to the clarity of evidence. So how can we -- How can we rebuild respect for truth and evidence into our liberal democracies? It has to begin with education, but it has to start with the recognition that there are huge gaps.

Why Brexit happened --...

 they appreciated that it would take wholesale transformations if they were to provide an education worthy of free men and women. Given this rare opportunity to start fresh, they chose liberal arts

Liz Coleman's call to...

 describe that to you imagine the worst fishy cat food in the world but in the airing cupboard for three days and then spread liberally on a beach in Antarctica and you pretty much got it oh