Ryan Tedder Quotes

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

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

In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.

Centrism is bogus.

I am not a centrist.

The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.

I'm what you would call an 'independent moderate.'

There are too many political moderates in America.

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

We need to tell the far-right and the far-left to go away and have people in the center solve the problem.

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

The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy.

I'm a centrist.

Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

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.

It [is] natural that in the vibration of the political pendulum, it should go from one extreme to another.

Most political accidents happen in the middle of the road.

Our political system is based on two parties fighting to capture the middle. Unfortunately the Republican party has been captured by conservative extremists.

Public opinion can become polarized into a bimodal distribution with only a few people in the center and many more lying toward the extremes. But under such circumstances, democracy will probably break down …