I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.
Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.
I'm what you would call an 'independent moderate.'
I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.
I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another and that is: I say that I'm not entitled to have an opinion on this subject unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who support it. I think only when I've reached that state am I qualified to speak. This business of not drifting into extreme ideology is a very, very important thing in life
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.
The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism and from the left socialism without internationalism.
The American people will always be progressive as well as conservative.
We need to tell the far-right and the far-left to go away and have people in the center solve the problem.
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.
Conservatives complain that the Supreme Court is too liberal. Liberals complain that it's too conservative. Both charges are inaccurate: in reality the Court is a careful political actor that arguably represents the center of gravity of American politics better than most politicians do.
I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.
We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.
There are two great antagonistic principles at the root of all government, stability and experiment. The former is Tory, and the latter is Whig.
The PRI portrays itself as the force of the center, of stability.
If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.
I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.
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.
You can't rule America from the fringes. You must rule America from the middle.
Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.
Both the country, and my party, are beset with division. We cannot bring the country back together unless the party of government is united, and the party cannot unite if it is led from its fringes.
I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.
I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.
