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If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.

A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.

I'm not allowed to be as liberal as I would like to be, you know? I'd do a lot more damage if I could!

I am personally quite liberal.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

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

I grew up in a very liberal place.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

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