Rick Bayan Quotes

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.

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

I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.

Centrism is bogus.

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

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 quite moderate.

People ask me if I'm liberal or conservative. I say neither - I'm pragmatic.

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.

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.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

I'm a centrist.

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

You can't really be passionately moderate. It's like wearing an 'Extra Medium' - it doesn't exist.

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

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

I feel, in my life, in any situation I've been in, I've always been sort of in the middle.

Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.

In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.

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 had a reputation of being somewhat moderate, partly, I think, because I wasn't a 'bomb thrower' like some of my conservative colleagues, and partly because I got along with people all across the political spectrum.

A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.