Tuesday, June 26, 2007

"... [I]f by a liberal 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, their civil liberties, if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a liberal. "

John F. Kennedy

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Me too!

care said...

AMEN SHUGAH!!

Anonymous said...

At the end of Gore Vidal's recent book Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2003), there's a startling excerpt of a conversation he had with JFK....let's just say it was prescient...