Bill Moyers Quotes

I am not a centrist.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

Left-wing confusion spawns right-wing reaction.

A party of order and stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

When most people see the word "radical," they think that it must refer to something left wing. Some people also may think of it as referring to far right-wing marginal groups. But here we have a president of the United States [George W. Bush] at the center of power, sitting in the White House, who is a radical.

The country you're born in is where your passport comes from. No, not according to Donald Trump! No, not at all. I resent that kind of extremism of any kind. Left wing, right wing. Anyway at all. Anything that judges other people so harshly and across the board stupidity-wise. I got no time for that.

Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

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.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I started out as a Democrat.

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

The left hand of the right wing.

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.

A liberal is a conservative who's been indicted.

It [is] natural that in the vibration of the political pendulum, it should go from one extreme to another.

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

Good government is the result of popular and anti-popular principles blended together, rather than of the mere ascendency of either; the aim, therefore, is to prevent either from going too far.

I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.

I don't believe just because you're a conservative that you're angry.