John Sununu Quotes

This is Romney's biggest political weakness. His policy flip-flops and the general sense that he's not comfortable in his own skin leads voters, including many supporters, wondering about his core values.

When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.

In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre.

Most people perceive moderates as timid middle-of-the-roaders who can't take a stand.

One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we're too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can't compromise on your core principles.

Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.

Simply because you're a Democrat doesn't mean you can't speak to these issues in language that appeals to voters, particularly independent voters.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

Centrism is bogus.

I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

I'm willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

The Doppler Effect: When running in a primary, candidate appears farther to the left or right than he or she in fact is, but as candidate nears the general election, candidate's views appear to approach the center.

You can't win with just Republican voters. You can't win with just Democratic voters. The key is the ticket splitters.

What’s the use of getting elected or getting re-elected if you don’t stand for anything …. I fully realize that this is the termination of my political career.

Whoever feels the amount of interest in the government of his country which befits a freeman, has some convictions on national affairs which are like his life-blood; which the strength of his belief in their truth, together with the importance he attaches to them, forbid him to make a subject of compromise, or postpone to the judgment of any person, however greatly his superior.

The best position the government could assume would be that of moderation between opposite extremes of Ultra-Toryism and Radicalism

Never have I met a politician who was as certain her or she was absolutely right as Margret Thatcher.

I think Republicans make a mistake when they seek to be 'Democrat light.'

I don't see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it's slightly less bad than the opposition.