Charles H. Percy Quotes

I'm a Bill Clinton social Republican.

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

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

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.

If anything, the Democrats' salvation may lie in the fact that Republicans seem even more hell-bent on allowing their radical wing to drag the party away from the center.

Successful presidential campaigns follow a two-part strategy. For Republicans, Richard Nixon described it as running to the right in the primaries and running back to the center in the general election. For Democrats, the idea is to go to the left in the primaries, then to the center.

Most people want a normal centrist approach. But politicians in the center have to show them results.

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.

The Republicans have a very traditional focus over and over again whether or not it's worked.

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

John Boehner was and is an unprincipled ward-heeler who simply couldn't weather the transition of the Republican Party from a corporatist party with a sizable conservative base to a purely conservative party.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.

I'm fighting for the heart and soul of the Republican Party and I think if I win this campaign that people will take notice and the next time they select a candidate, they will look at the principles.

When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.

In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

Competition for votes sends parties in a two-party system toward the center.

I'm for making the Republican Party conservative or making it die.

You can't rule America from the fringes. You must rule America from the middle.

A liberal Republican is a contradiction in terms ... a moderate Republican is a liberal who doesn't like to call himself a liberal.

There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the cohesive power of public plunder.