Brad Bird Quotes

I'm a centrist.

I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.

Not every Democratic idea is a good one; not every Republican idea is a bad one.

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.

Most people perceive moderates as timid middle-of-the-roaders who can't take a stand.

Centrism is bogus.

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

In politics the middle way is none at all.

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

I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.

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

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

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

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'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.

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

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.

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.

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.

I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.

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

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

In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre.

I'm not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he's a pragmatist.