Oswald Mosley Quotes

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

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

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

For the left, an obsession with the state. For the right, a worship of the market. But as liberals, we place our faith in people. People with power and opportunity in their hands. Our opponents try to divide us with their outdated labels of left and right. But we are not on the left and we are not on the right. We have our own label: Liberal. We are liberals and we own the freehold to the centre ground of British politics. Our politics is the politics of the radical centre. We are governing from the middle, for the middle.

The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

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

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

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

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

I don’t think America really has a left wing. The American left wing would fit very comfortably in the center or center right of most European political spectrums.

Everybody in Mariposa is neither liberal or conservative or else is both.

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

We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism and from the left socialism without internationalism.

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 current attitude is pretty much the attitude we had in the CIA during the 1950s. When we analysed the operational climate and all the political forces in any given country, we had our friends and we had our enemies. There was no one in between. The friends were centre and Right wing social democrats, conservatives, liberals, in some cases all the way over to neo-fascists. The enemies were Left wing social democrats, socialists, Communists, all the way to those advocating armed struggle.

If anything, I'm to the left of Obama.

I analyze people's ideology, and I know leftists and liberals like the back of my hand.

I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left to appropriate this almost indispensable term but should even have assisted by beginning to use it themselves as a term of opprobrium. This seems to be particularly regrettable because of the consequent tendency of many true liberals to describe themselves as conservatives.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.