As long as there are welfare programs for corporations there should be welfare programs for individuals. 

-- Jon Carroll

Conservatives and liberals take a fundamentally different approach to politics. Conservatives are driven by rage: liberals by guilt. Conservatives attack. Liberals equivocate. . . . Conservatives believe they are battling evil. Liberals believe that are struggling to overcome human frailties. 

-- David Morris

There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience.  And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Some like a profound suspension of judgment.

-- Roland Barthes 

Whatever connotations it once had, the word moderate has now come to mean liberal or even left-wing in American politics.

-- Anne Applebaum