Chris Matthews Quotes

I am not a centrist.

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.

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

I'm considered a new Democrat, which would be considered moderate.

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.

Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.

A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.

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

I would put myself towards left of center.

A Whig [Liberal] may be a fool, a Tory [Conservative] must be so.

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

George W. Bush is conservative but he is not a conservative.

Barack Obama would have been seen as a liberal Republican—a kind of Rockefeller Republican in the 1960s. He is at most a centrist. To think of him as somebody in the left is often almost laughable.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.

I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.

I don't know that I'm as conservative as portrayed.

I don't know what Russell Moore's politics really are. I don't know if he is a closet liberal or if he is a conservative.

I don’t think I’m all that conservative.