Josh Billings Quotes

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

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

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.

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

Centrism is bogus.

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

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

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.

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

I'm quite moderate.

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

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

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.

I am still radical!

I am not a centrist.

As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading.

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.

I'm considered a new Democrat, which would be considered moderate.

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