Denise Dresser Quotes

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.

For most of my life, I've considered myself a political centrist.

I'm always a little happier if the court stays somewhat in the center.

I'm a centrist.

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

There is ample evidence that participation in an electoral process forces any party, regardless of ideology, to moderate its position if it wants to attract voters in large numbers.

You can't rule America from the fringes. You must rule America from the middle.

Arab governments, at the end of the day, care most about remaining in power.

I believe in a balanced government. I don't believe in minimum or maximum. Balance is always the best way.

I'm quite moderate.

My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.

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

I'm an avowed centrist, and I believe that - centrism is often - it's almost the wrong word to use, because it's often seen as sort of splitting the difference between right and left.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.

I felt I had had enough of politicians and government upheavals …. Suddenly I was enveloped in the feeling that only science is lasting.

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.

The antidote to frenzied partisanship won’t be found in politics as usual but in problem-solving leaders who govern from the center.

I think the Democrats' role is to be vocal.

I know a moderate, more centered candidate like myself doesn't get as much attention as people who tend to say more extreme things.

I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.

My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right.

Our democracy has survived for so many years in India. We should at least give credit to the Congress for that.

We have two political parties in this country; we cannot have one of them be abandoned to complete nutcases. We've got to have two good political parties.