Carolyn McCarthy Quotes

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

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

I would put myself towards left of center.

Bill Clinton is a moderate Democrat. I'm a democratic socialist.

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

I'm a centrist.

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

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

I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party.

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides.

I am not a centrist.

I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

I belong to the Democratic Party.

I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of flux. I'm not socialist, I know that.

Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.

I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.

I started out as a Democrat.

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.