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Originally posted by Xylochick216
"If by liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties... if that is what they mean by a 'liberal', then I am proud to be a liberal."
-- JFK
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That's a nice quote, but the fact is that there are conservatives who care about all of those things too; it's a nice party speech, but beyond that the quote doesn't say too much.