The liberal democratic rhetoric of President Woodrow Wilson suited the occasion far better.

The debate was revealing because it exposed the core of racism and bigotry beneath the liberal rhetoric of Canada's much vaunted multiculturalism.

These guys actually believe all this liberal rhetoric about the country being full of angry white males.

According to them, the "puppet party" was designed to divert opposition voters by using liberal rhetoric.

In fact, the forces that severed liberal rhetoric from its underlying ideology cut both ways.

Therefore, despite liberal rhetoric, the 1950s witnessed what has been called a "reluctant expansion of the welfare state".

Perhaps the dissonance between conservative message and liberal rhetoric could not be maintained indefinitely.

"What is new here is that the United States has actually acknowledged what it does, rather than gussy up its impulses with liberal rhetoric."

Lawsuits, he said, enjoy "a superficial appeal which is consistent with traditional liberal rhetoric, that the little guy has the right to litigate."