As with most liberal sexual ideas what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open fairly liberal loud people.

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that if you're liberal is really discouraging.

I don't trust liberals I trust conservatives.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong for like him she has been accused of mental inferiority and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

With respect to Barack Obama let's face it Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.

In some ways England is more liberal than France but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based instead on mutual respect honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect that you earn income responsibility. the vote punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular liberal people I ignored it for a long time. Lately of course just from a political perspective it's impossible to ignore.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life liberalism conservatism religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.