— Eric Alterman
(Source: billmoyers.com)
“I think liberalism just makes sense. Liberalism is acting rationally and principally in the name of fairness, in the name of the greatest amount of equality possible.
Saying that being born rich shouldn’t give you an impossible advantage over everybody else forever. That’s just common sense to me. It’s what this country was founded on. There were different priorities back then. But it’s the same challenge that faced the founding fathers. That faces every generation. And yet, it’s held in such ill-repute. It’s considered so outrageous.
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(Source: billmoyers.com)
“ If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal”, then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal. ”
“ I haven’t been a progressive, I’ve been a liberal and I will continue to be. ”
(Source: charlierose.com)
“ It’s ridiculous. I’m an American patriot. I fought for this country and risked my life in World War II, I’d do it again if the circumstances were the same, but I don’t know how the Republicans get on this kick that Democrats are soft on crime and soft off on defense. I’ve always been for a strong defense, but I don’t believe in wasting money on defense. ”
(Source: charlierose.com)
“ Ted Kennedy’s life’s work was not to champion the causes of those with wealth or power or special connections. It was to give a voice to those who were not heard; to add a rung to the ladder of opportunity; to make real the dream of our founding. He was given the gift of time that his brothers were not, and he used that gift to touch as many lives and right as many wrongs as the years would allow. ”
(Source: TIME)
“ Let me tell ya. I’m proud to be a liberal. A liberal is somebody who takes care of their brothers… who believes that we who are better off should take care of those who are less better off. I don’t see that as false responsibility. I see that as what makes America great. ”
(Source: b4a.healthyinterest.net)
“Let me warn you and let me warn the nation against the smooth evasion that says, “Of course we believe these things. We believe in Social Security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all these things. But we do not like the way the present administration is doing them: just turn them over to us. We will do all of them. We will do more of them. We will do them better. And most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything.”
“ The story of modern American politics writ large is the story of your father‘s and your grandfather‘s Republican Party now being way to the left of today‘s leftiest liberals. If Dwight Eisenhower were running for office today, he would have to run, I‘m guessing as an independent, and not as some Joe Lieberman, in between the parties, independent. He‘d be a Bernie Sanders independent. ”
(Source: politicususa.com)
