Saw someone on my facebook with this quote and this picture:

Quote:
Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things...every one! So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, 'Liberal,' as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won't work, Senator, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor.
Then I saw this on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/commen ... a_liberal/
A lot of times "liberal" and "conservative" are words that are thrown around with a lot of negativity attached to them. I don't really like labels. I think they are part of the problem we have with partisan politics in this country. Some of these quotes did raise interesting points though.
Personally, however, I like this quote:
Quote:
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.