Jeremy John Dunham 'Paddy' Quotes
I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.
Paddy Ashdown, Leader, British Social & Liberal Democratic Party, Speech, Party Conference, Brighton, 1989
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Often called Blackshirts. He is one of the few politicians in the world who saw Fascists and Nazis in the middle of the political spectrum.
This was one of the first instances of the political tactic of Triangulation, which President Clinton used so well to chart a middle course between the left wing of his own party and the Republican right wing extremists in Congress.
Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente
Lecture, FDR Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY, June 24, 2006
What if you are a conservative in a liberal environment? Then what you are conserving is liberalism.
His reference was to his experience as an undergraduate at Dartmouth, which he and associates views as a liberal organization, while others viewed it as a conservative bastion of the establishment.