Thomas Barrett Quotes

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

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

Centrism is bogus.

I am not a centrist.

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.

I listen to the far left which informs the far right. Somewhere in the middle is where we end up.

In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.

Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

The right hand doesn’t know what the far right hand is doing.

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

Partisanship has gotten worse and worse.

Political pendulums swing hard and feed on stark contrast.

I don't view myself as marching to any right-wing drummer.

The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side.

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.

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

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.

Each side had its uninformed fanatics. And each side had political leaders who fanned the flames with their rhetoric.

The left hand of 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.

The field of politics always presents the same struggle. There are the Right and the Left, and in the middle is the Swamp. The Swamp is made up of know-nothings, of them who are without ideas, of them who are always with the majority.