Sting Quotes

I am a commonsense sort of a person, and I don't get carried away with emotion and fears.

You've got to be realistic.

Reasonable, sensible men can always make a reasonable scheme appear such to other reasonable men.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

It's easier being with somebody who's got some sense.

I like common sense, to try and be the voice of reason at work.

Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.

How is it that labels like 'centrist' and 'moderate,' which common sense tells us should reflect the views of a majority of Americans, have come to be applied to those who represent minority interests and opinions?

Once upon a time the Conservative party was a broad church which embraced a range of views.

We have a variety of views in our party, a variety of views in our caucus.

For me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum.

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

We see pluralism: We can see that there are different ideological and political positions in Russia. If the authoritarianism finally ends, we will have real competition.

I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses the boundaries of traditional - center-right and center-left have much more in common with each other right now than the right does with the center-right, and the left does with the center-left.

The Voice of Reason is in us all...and everyone can recognize it because it makes sense and everyone benefits from it equally.

The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every single decision.

We have a centrist nationalist group of people in this country, lots of them, and we have a socialist group of people in this country, lots of them. And that's not, to me, the American idea.

It'll be good - knowing that you have Republicans, Democrats. But even with the Republicans, you have conservatives, you have moderates. You have many different factions. And all good people, and they all want something different. You know, it's - it's something that's very interesting.

I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.

Somewhere along the line common sense should prevail,.

The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.

I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.