Sydney Pollack Quotes

I'm quite moderate.

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

Centrism is bogus.

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

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

I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.

People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird." A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground.

A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

In politics the middle way is none at all.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

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

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.

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.

I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.

My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.

I'm like most people in America. I'm conservative on some things, and I'm liberal on other things.

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

I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

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

I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary.

I'm not a reactionary.

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

I am not a centrist.

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.