What do our opponents mean when they apply the label "Liberal?" If they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in policies, against local government, and unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, I am not that kind of "Liberal." But if 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, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."
And the amount of stalemate and suspicion, or even downright paranoia, we have seen lately is pretty overwhelming.
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