Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

I listen to the far left which informs the far right. Somewhere in the middle is where we end up.

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

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

Centrism is bogus.

From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

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

You're shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.

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

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

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

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

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

Not every Democratic idea is a good one; not every Republican idea is a bad one.

My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.

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.

People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird." A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground.

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

The American people as a whole are really pretty moderate. They're not, as a whole, conservative or liberal. The right wing is marching the Republican Party off a cliff.

I don't care if they're Republican liberals or Democrat liberals, they're still liberals. They're not 'moderates.' Don't hit me with that. There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise.