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Theodore H White: A liberal is...

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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.

Source: On his role as a storyteller of elections in series of books on presidential campaigns, recalled on his death 15 May 86
-- Theodore H White, (May 6 1915-1986), US historian, author; He looks at American presidential politics, 1956 through 1980 in America in Search of Itself, 1986.

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