Robert Reich Quotes

I am not a centrist.

In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.

The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

I'm what you would call an 'independent moderate.'

There are too many political moderates in America.

I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.

I'm quite moderate.

The media will not admit that Trump's America and Sanders' America are as different as Venus and Mars: they represent a very polarized America with two different answers to the question, 'Who are we?'

I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

I'm a centrist.

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

I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over.

I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.

The left hand of the right wing.

Left-wing confusion spawns right-wing reaction.

Our politics are half noble and half mud wrestling.

Most political accidents happen in the middle of the road.

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

Political pendulums swing hard and feed on stark contrast.

We need to tell the far-right and the far-left to go away and have people in the center solve the problem.