Liberal Quotes

"I'm not sitting here, some little woman standing by her man. I'm sitting here because I love him and I respect him."

"I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life."

"Look at the very people who are involved in this. They have popped up in other settings. The great story here for anybody willing to find it, write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president,"

"That is not going to be proven true," Clinton said. She said she was fighting the charges "not only because I love and believe my husband" but for the sake of the nation."

"Bill and I have been accused of everything, including murder, by some of the very same people who are behind these allegations," she said. "So from my perspective, this is part of a continuing political campaign against my husband."

"I do not think homosexuality is immoral."

"The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not."

"We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

"He ran a gas station down in St. Louis... No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century."

"I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian."

"It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scriptures," she declared, before adding: "This bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself."

"We do but we also have huge tax cuts that are unaffordable that are shifting the tax burden rather dramatically away from those of us who are most able to bear it to the middle class, which I don't agree with."

"And so, we have had a president who has been the first in our history to take us to war and cut taxes at the same time. That's never happened before. You know, you can't have everything in life. You know, I try to teach my daughter that. I try to preach about that to, you know, people all the time."

"I neither support illegal immigration nor the enactment of fruitless schemes that would penalize churches and hospitals for helping the truly needy . . . We should not unduly punish the overwhelming majority of immigrants who work hard, raise families, pay their taxes, and contribute to their communities."

"I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Neuman (Bush) is in charge in Washington,"

"I have never felt more strongly in any other election because I cannot imagine what our country would look like under four more years of a Bush administration,"

"I have been absolutely amazed, even shocked, at the combination of arrogance and incompetence that marks this particular administration,"

"In the last six and a half years we have seen a dangerous experiment in extremism in the White House."

"I would argue that his is the most radical presidency we have ever had. You can look at nearly any aspect of our life here at home, in the nation or around the world.”

"Our people remain vulnerable, nearly as vulnerable as we were before 8:56 a.m. on Sept. 11,"

"When you look at the way the House of Representatives (GOP) has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about,"

"The refusal of this administration to level with the American people on matters large and small is very disturbing, because it goes counter to the way our constitutional democracy . . . is supposed to work,"

"We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have incompetence,"

"There has never been an administration, I don't believe, in our history more intent upon consolidating and abusing power to further their own agenda,"

"I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country."

"We are living in a time when the other side doesn't want us to see the facts. Facts are inconvenient — facts about global warming, facts about mercury in the air, facts about people staying unemployed longer,"

"Whether it's the right to organize and be part of the American labor movement ... whether it's the right to be able to be have a choice when it comes to the most private and intimate decisions that a woman has to make, whether it is to protect the environment — whatever it is that we slowly but surely built up during the 20th century, this current administration and their allies in Congress want to turn the clock back on all of that,"