Sentences with phrase «most liberal people»

And because he was supposed to be one of the most liberal people in the Congress, that really hurt our chances of passing that bill,» Ms. Huerta said, dismissing the socialist candidate's often lofty rhetoric.

«It's not Arkansas or some state in the middle of the country... it's New York State, New York City, the most progressive capital of the world, the most liberal people in America,» Cuomo said.

Medina slammed him for not doing enough, but Dilan countered that he voted for rent regulations just as the most liberal people in the state voted.

Look at the most well known atheists out there right now, people like PZ Myers, Sean Harris, Richard Dawkins, they're among the most liberal people out there who argue vehemently for freedom of religion.

Sometimes I was pretty sure I was, in a quite conventional sense, the most liberal person in the room.

I also want to say, for the record, I've posted comments here before, I'm the most liberal person in the world (and yes, I'm also in the south).

Not exact matches

But perhaps devolving most existing federal power to the state level will end up being the most mutually acceptable path forward for both conservatives and liberals who don't want to be dictated to by people who don't share their values.

«I would look to find the smartest, most open - minded person, who is able to say, you know what, where there's a liberal interpretation that's better suited for what's going on, fine,» Cuban said.

But it's crucial, he argued, for governments to make sure most people can see the benefits of liberal economic policy flowing their way.

«There are lots of people who were as liberal as I was in the military, and like in the rest of America most folks in the military are probably less ideological than talking heads would ike to think they are.»

She talks about the scores of ethnographies she'd read, and how white, liberal social scientists were shocked, shocked to discover that most of the Klan members they studied were pretty nice people.

Mr. Ambtman is a virtual unknown to most people outside Liberal Party and some other political circles, but his performance at a media conference following Dr. Swann's resignation announcement gave him an opportunity to show off some of his respectable speaking skills to the media.

Liberals say the minimum wage raise is the most immediate and best way to lift people out of poverty.

It is funny that the people who claim they are the most tolerant in theory (the liberal media and left) and actually the least tolerant in fact.

I think it comes down to the reality that not only are most news reporters and producers liberals themselves, they are also embedded in social networks of people who are much more partisan liberals.

Most liberals ARE wonderful people.

Most priests are pretty liberal too... always being for «the poor» never telling the poor people to get their act together.

Ironically I went from what what most people would consider to be an extremely liberal and open minded church to a (somewhat) more conservative church, and find it more open to honest self examination.

I know it's selfish, but around here, most people know only one liberal, and it's me.

The same is true of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.

Their antics are only the most visible (partly because they are sometimes the most silly) examples of how liberal institutions influence people who think of themselves as basically apolitical.

I am the most liberal, women's rights, go girl person in the world — but, have you seen some of those contortionist grabs guys get into in wrestling.

Although many observers see this growth only as evidence of the increasing irrelevance of religion, the nonreligious represent an important cultural group, as liberal on social issues as the most committed religious people are conservative.

My ethics mentor in seminary, John Bennett, made an indelible impression on me when he offhandedly remarked that many liberals seem incapable of relating affectionately to the persons most close at hand.

Most people today categorize political divisions into the binary categories of liberal and conservative (another one of those jejune, digital pigeonholes that function more to preclude thought than to promote it).

Nor is it to be found in most of the discussions about the virtue and value of public service for America's young people, discussions that have been going on for some years now» for convenience call them «post-Vietnam»» among both liberals and conservatives.

In the 1970s and 1980s liberal Democrats were too closely (or maybe too exclusively) associated with the interests of the poor (however defined) and insufficiently interested in the interests of the middle - class (and most people thought of themselves as middle - class).

Writing on the website Spiked, Ann Furedi, the head of BPAS (the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, a euphemism similar to «Planned Parenthood»), notes that «most people who think of themselves as liberal and modern - thinking believe that rape, incest, youth, poverty or even general «unwantedness» are «good reasons» for doctors to approve abortion; and they think «sex selection» is a bad reason, which should be stopped.»

Most people who care about higher education have a handful of similar stories, projecting a dismal forecast for the liberal arts.

While it would take an empirical study to solve the issue, my hypothesis is that most persons in our culture — liberal, postliberal or what have you — interpret their experiences and «the universe» primarily in terms that are neither biblical nor theological.

And I'd like to help get the well - meaning liberals out of that absurd position, of accidentally endorsing the far right on a supposedly anti-racist ticket, and being massively behind where most people got to when it came to England and football - without thinking so much about it - at least 15 - 20 years ago.

Defense Counsel, Barrister Akande Babafemi applied for the bail of the accused person in the most liberal terms.

Schneiderman has positioned himself as the most liberal candidate in the five - person Democratic AG field, and also the choice of Latino and black voters, which explains his support of Espaillat (although the two have a longstanding relationship; Espaillat backed Schneiderman when former NYC Councilman Guillermo Linares mounted a failed primary challenge to the Manhattan senator in 2002).

[Most people do not care about the gay issue, the media is just obsessed with it because many in the media are gay liberals.]

Most people do not care about the gay issue, the media is just obsessed with it because many in the media are gay liberals.

It is, however, designed to be a bit of a swipe at Brodsky's legislative colleague, Sen. Eric Schneiderman, who has been assumed to be the preferred candidate of Latinos and African Americans since there are no minority AG contenders and he's the most liberal of the five - person field.

And never did I think that the Liberal Democrats would ever collude in mounting such a vicious attack on the most vulnerable people in our society as they have done with the bedroom tax.

A renewed Labour party is critical to the social liberal politics that I believe most people on this site sympathise with to a greater or lesser degree.

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

And the Liberal Democrats know this, and know that most people have a problem with Labour as a government, not just Gordon Brown as prime minister.

The sudden, synthetic fury we're seeing from the Labour party is nothing more than an attempt to distract people from the most important change coming into effect: the tax cut for ordinary working people delivered by the Liberal Democrats.

It was the people who were not tribal who were not most angry with the Liberal Democrats.»

Its why most people hate liberals.

Are these Liberal Democrats «okay» with making some of the most vulnerable people in our society pay for the economic mess caused by millionaire bankers?

Asked how he could possibly ask Labour voters to vote for him when he spent most of the last week encouraging a Labour candidate to stand against him, Mr Davis replied: «I'm asking everybody and we've had support from Tories, of course, Liberal activists, people who say «I've voted Labour all my life» and - most interestingly of all - people who said I've never taken an interest in politics all my life but this has galvanised my interest.»

Speaking on the same programme, Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes said he believed the Tories would suffer the most from Ukip as they are most obviously attractive to people who «want to vote on the right for less public expenditure».

Personally, I am confident that liberal, small state, politics gives the most disadvantaged people the best chance to improve their lives.

When most people think of New York, they think of New York City, a liberal bastion where enrolled Democrats outnumber Republicans by about 5 to 1.

Unlike David Cameron and Gordon Brown, with whom it's possible to refer, en passant, to Bullingdon Club shenanigans, or a rugby injury, or a manse, and for nearly everyone to know what that might mean, all most people knew about Clegg (if they could name the leader of the Liberal Democrats at all) was perhaps that he had some European connections, though they weren't sure what, and maybe that he once told Piers Morgan he'd had 30 lovers (in fact, asked by Morgan whether he had slept with 30 women, Clegg replied: «It's a lot less than that» — not that that got in the way of a good story.)

Welsh Liberal Democrat AM Eluned Parrott has called for the Welsh Government to take steps to ensure that Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is available to people who are most at risk of contracting HIV.