"If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reaction, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that's what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal." -- John F. Kennedy, 1960.