Bob Graham Quotes

As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading.

I'm looking for some centrist political party to find a home in and it's not there, actually.

I am a proud moderate republican. But I like democrats as well.

I'm fearful the Democratic Party is already moving too far to the left. I want to push the Democratic Party to be more in touch with mainstream America, and on some issues, that's more left, and on some issues it might be more right.

At the end of the day, Democrats go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far left; Republicans go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far right. Hey, there's a big middle ground here that's not represented. I think that, Bill Weld and myself, I think the Libertarian Party really occupies that ground.

I'm not someone who thinks Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right.

I don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center.

For most of my life, I've considered myself a political centrist.

In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left.

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.

I'm fiscally conservative but socially moderate. A moderate Republican - there just aren't many of us left.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

I say Republicans aren't right all the time. Democrats aren't wrong all the time - now, maybe most of the time, but not all the time.

I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.

I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

The American people will always be progressive as well as conservative.

I suppose we could say of Gen. Cameron that he is not Democrat enough to hurt him.

It always is a battle for a Republican in Connecticut, even one who's a moderate like I am, and one who's an independent thinker.

I received endorsements from Tea Party to moderates alike. And I think that's unique, and that's something I'm proud of.