Leon Jaworski Quotes

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

People at the political extremes have an advantage over the rest of us. Only they seem to know exactly who and what is wrong with America and precisely what policies and programs should be adopted to fix it.

Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

Centrism is bogus.

Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.

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

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

There are too many political moderates in America.

I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.

In New York, the opposite of a Democrat is not a Republican; it’s a Fascist.

My constant efforts are directed against ultras of all kinds.

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

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.

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

Left, right, populism... all are meaningless concepts.

There is no place for any kind of extremism in society.

As a university student and activist, I was attacked from all quarters from the far right to the far left.

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.

The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.