Pat Paulsen Quotes

I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.

I'm a centrist.

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

I'm quite moderate.

I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.

The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.

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

Centrism is bogus.

I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.

I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.

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

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

The greatest compliment is I am accused of being a Dem leftie and a Republican righty. I am a pragmatist. I call it as I see it.

People ask me if I'm liberal or conservative. I say neither - I'm pragmatic.

I'm a Democrat, but I'm really bipartisan - some people might say nonpartisan.

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

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.

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.

By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

I'm considered a new Democrat, which would be considered moderate.

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

I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.

I'm always a little happier if the court stays somewhat in the center.

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