Renata Adler Quotes

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.

Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

I'm not an extremist, you know.

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

Extremism of the right should not be answered by extremism of the left, because neither extremism will work. The country has been wise in avoiding extremism

The solution, as always, is a union of the half truths drawn from the extremes

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

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Extremes can be right on no side.

You see every extreme position defended to the last vote, almost to the last breath by one unyielding group or another. You often see a balanced and fair approach that demands sacrifice, a little sacrifice from everyone, abandoned like an orphan without support and without friends.

True leadership knows not to go to extremes but knows how to confront and appreciate challenges.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

I'm a really extreme person, and balance is probably the hardest thing for me to maintain.

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.

Sometimes I'm a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it's good to have both.

The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.