Center for American Progress

The Center for American Progress is a think tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action. Founded in 2003, CAP combines bold policy ideas with a modern communications platform to help shape the national debate, expose the hollowness of conservative governing philosophy, and challenge the media to cover the issues that truly matter. See americanprogress.org.
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Bill Maher

"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"

-- Bill Maher, American entertainer.
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Office space

Your office space may indicate if you are conservative or liberal, according to a recent New York University study published on LiveScience.com. The study observed a mixture of male and female workspaces while surveying political orientation. Conservatives tended to keep an organized office while liberals favored colorful, more stylish but cluttered spaces.
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Helen Thomas

"I'm covering the worst president in American history."

-- Helen Thomas, American journalist.
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Democratic party voters

Nearly 30% of all eligible U.S. voters are not registered with a political party or affiliation. The Democratic party has the highest proportion of registered voters in the United States (31%), followed by Republicans (23%), followed by Independent and minority parties (16%). Roughly 46% of all eligible voters are not aligned with the Republican or Democratic party.
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Barney Frank

"Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions."

-- Barney Frank, United States Congressman.
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Neurobiology of politics

Scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how their brains work, according to a recent Los Angeles Times story. Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists contend that political orientation is attributed to how the brain processes information. The study echoed previous psychological studies of conservatives and liberals.
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Community organizer

President Obama made strides as a community organizer long before becoming an Illinois State Senator in 1996. Between his college years and his political career, Obama volunteered or worked at such places as the New York Public Interest Research Group, the Developing Communities Project, the Gamaliel Foundation, Public Allies, and Illinois' Project Vote voter registration drive.
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The Progressive Policy Institute

The Progressive Policy Institute is a think tank founded in 1989. The Institute's mission is to define and promote a new progressive politics for America in the 21st century. Through its research, policies, and commentary, the Institute is fashioning a new governing philosophy and an agenda for public innovation geared to the Information Age. See ppionline.org.
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Roe v. Wade

The U.S. Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade was decided on January 22, 1973. The court's decision disallowed most existing state and federal restrictions on abortion in the United States. It held that a mother may abort her pregnancy for any reason up until the point at which the fetus becomes viable. The case decision prompted national debate that continues today.
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Bill Clinton

“Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.”

-- Bill Clinton, President of the United States.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Democratic congressman John Conyers first introduced legislation for a commemorative Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday four days after King was assassinated in 1968. Legislation was resubmitted each session up through 1983, when Congress passed the bill making the third Monday in January an official federal holiday in memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Liberals

Nineteen percent of Americans consider themselves as liberal, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center. The study identified liberals as the most affluent and educated demographic among American political classes. Of those who identified as liberal, 49 percent were college graduates and 41 percent had household incomes exceeding $75,000, well above the national average.
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Barbara Kingsolver

"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."

-- Barbara Kingsolver, American author.
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Alexander Cockburn

"They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard."

-- Alexander Cockburn, Irish-American author and journalist.
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Betty Williams

“Nonviolence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be nonviolent.”

-- Betty Williams, Irish peace activist.
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Arnold J. Toynbee

"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."

-- Arnold J. Toynbee, British historian.
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Alan Colmes

Alan Colmes is online at alan.com. Colmes may also be heard nightly on his national syndicated radio talk show. Alan Colmes began his career has a standup comedian, did some radio news stints, and served as co-host of Fox News' Hannity and Colmes. Colmes is also the author of "Red, White and Liberal: How Left is Right and Right is Wrong."
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Bertrand Russell

"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate."

-- Bertrand Russell, British philosopher.
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Matthew

"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."

-- Matthew, New Testament
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Frank Rich

"It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't."

-- Frank Rich, American author and commentator.
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John Kenneth Galbraith

"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."

-- John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist.
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Charles Evans Hughes

"War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals."

-- Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the United States.
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Barack Obama

"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."

-- Barack Obama, President of the United States.
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Who Rules America

G. William Domhoff’s "Who Rules America? Power and Politics" is a classic best seller. Domhoff suggests America’s corporate community, the basis for a social upper class, have developed a policy-planning and opinion-shaping network that give them the means to shape the policies of interest within the federal government.
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Angela Davis

"I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement."

-- Angela Davis, American political activist.
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Bernard Baruch

"We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat."

-- Bernard Baruch, American statesman.
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A Civil Action

A Civil Action is a 1998 film base on the Jonathan Harr novel. It tells the real-life David versus Goliath story of a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts in the 1980s. A small-time law firm wins the class-action fight for cancer-victim families while experiencing its own demise.
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John F. Kennedy

"If 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, someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, then I'm proud to say I'm a Liberal"

-- John F. Kennedy, President of the United States.
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Liberal

The word liberal has its roots in the Latin term liberalis, meaning of freedom or relating to freedom. According to the website myetymology.com, the earliest known usage of the word liberal in the English language dates back to the 14th century. The word became common in everyday speech during the Age of Enlightenment during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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