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I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

I've always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology.

You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.