John Delaney Quotes

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

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.

I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done.

President Johnson offered the middle of the road.

What matters most is finding practical, pragmatic solutions .... Ideological purity is for partisan extremists.

Extremism of the right should not be answered by extremism of the left, because neither extremism will work. The country has been wise in avoiding extremism

I'm quite moderate.

I will do everything to make sure you never have reason again to vote for extremes.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

Centrism is bogus.

I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.

We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.

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 a centrist.

You can't really be passionately moderate. It's like wearing an 'Extra Medium' - it doesn't exist.

Most political accidents happen in the middle of the road.

Any policy that is extreme we must avoid.

The solution, as always, is a union of the half truths drawn from the extremes

Most Americans reject an absolutist sense of religious or political truth.

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

The antidote to frenzied partisanship won’t be found in politics as usual but in problem-solving leaders who govern from the center.

Leaders willing to demand centrist government and less alienating politics are rare. Moderation is not considered sexy; bipartisan initiatives are frequently deemed boring. Ironically, it has been left to a media celebrity to fill part of the yawning gap in the middle.