Bella Abzug Quotes

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.

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

Centrism is bogus.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

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?'

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

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.

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.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

Left-wing confusion spawns right-wing reaction.

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

There's an ideological belief on the left that you should not use nonpartisan tools.

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

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

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

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.

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.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

The left hand of the right wing.

The field of politics always presents the same struggle. There are the Right and the Left, and in the middle is the Swamp. The Swamp is made up of know-nothings, of them who are without ideas, of them who are always with the majority.