Nick Clegg Quotes

I am not nor ever have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

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

Extremism of the right should not be answered by extremism of the left, because neither extremism will work. The country has been wise in avoiding extremism

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted — in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest — at the command — of his head.

The history of the Republican Party shows why, since the Civil War, the nation has been caught in cycles of progressivism and reaction.

As Democrats, we believe in fairness and opportunity.

…liberals have traditionally distinguished themselves from conservatives by insisting that to promote liberty, America must promote opportunity as well.

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

A liberal Republican is a contradiction in terms ... a moderate Republican is a liberal who doesn't like to call himself a liberal.

In America, by and large, in the middle of the road you find us, we the people.

The dilemma of modern progressive politics is that you are always fighting on two fronts: The conservatives on the right, and the conservatives on the left.

The left and right have been as bad as each other. The left has allowed its distrust of markets and endless faith in government to obscure the importance of civil society. The right has been so focused on replacing the state with markets that it has forgotten how to cultivate a trusting society

Barack Obama would have been seen as a liberal Republican—a kind of Rockefeller Republican in the 1960s. He is at most a centrist. To think of him as somebody in the left is often almost laughable.

How did the progressive Republican Party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Eisenhower become the reactionary party of Ronald Reagan, the tea party and Paul Ryan? There is nothing random about these ideological shifts. They reflect the party’s — and the nation’s — central unresolved problem: the tension between equality of opportunity and protection of private property.

I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

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

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

New York is for everybody; it's for the poor, it's for the middle-class, it's for the wealthy. We can't punish any one group and chase them away.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

It's like being criticized by liberals. You wake up the next morning and you get over it.

… the Democratic Party in robes.

A liberal is a conservative who's been indicted.