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I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.

Obviously a primary liberal conviction is that we should be tolerant of other peoples' convictions. But if we believe in something, we had better find ways to say so convincingly.

I am personally quite liberal.

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.