Richard Nixon Quotes

I am not a centrist.

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

In New York, the opposite of a Democrat is not a Republican; it’s a Fascist.

Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.

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.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy.

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

Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left.

There are voices in the Republican Party today who preach pragmatism, who champion conciliation, who counsel compromise. I stand here today to reject those deceptions.

Left-wing confusion spawns right-wing reaction.

The right hand doesn’t know what the far right hand is doing.

You do not compromise with the right wing of the Republican party.

People at the political extremes have an advantage over the rest of us. Only they seem to know exactly who and what is wrong with America and precisely what policies and programs should be adopted to fix it.

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right

The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

When most people see the word "radical," they think that it must refer to something left wing. Some people also may think of it as referring to far right-wing marginal groups. But here we have a president of the United States [George W. Bush] at the center of power, sitting in the White House, who is a radical.

You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.