"For some reason, we've gotten to this place where liberal is a bad word again, which is truly insane. Look at American history. Start with teh Salem witch hunt. The conservative view was, 'Well, they're all witches and they should be burned at the stake.' But the liberal view was, 'Maybe there aren't any such things as witches.' Liberals thought that women should be allowed to vote. We thought it'd be okay for blacks to sit at any lunch counter they wanted and wherever they liked on a public bus. We thought that'd be all right. We've always been on the right side of history eventually. So I don't understand how you lose the moral argument.
We don't have to put the word compassionate in front of liberal the way conservatives do to prove that we give a shit about people. I think we should change what we call ourselves. I think we should be ruthless liberals. We need to show that we're tough, that we really give a shit about people."
- George Clooney, Esquire: January 2005
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