"So-called 'liberal'?"

"If by a 'Liberal' you 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 and their civil liberties—someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies, if that is what you mean by a 'Liberal', then I'm proud to say I'm a 'Liberal.'"
          —John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

Don Firth