Political Moderation Quotes

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.

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

Do you know people on the Right who are tolerant of people who are for gay marriage and are pro-choice? I actually do, plenty of them. When there is a disagreement, I see way more people on the Right... more often willing to agree to disagree rather than to de-friend or to smear.

Yesh Atid is a Jewish, religious-secular party. Our DNA is center - both Left and Right. The difference between center-left and center-right is more emotional and hereditary than having to do with what people think about the Palestinians.

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

I'm not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he's a pragmatist.

We will have a government where liberals will stay in power until they get radical and conservatives will have the power until they get reactionary.

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.

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 am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

An overall trend of political moderation in Latin America makes for far less interesting headlines, but it also makes for far better lives for our people.

The Barack who was so successful in Illinois in a Republican-controlled legislative situation for most of his time and who was a very outspoken progressive voice, that's not the man who we ended up having as president.

Partisanship is a fire not to be quenched. It demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its busting into a flame, lest instead of warming, it should consume.

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

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

In every political community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects. Ten degrees to the left of center in good times. Ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally. Here, then, is a lesson in safe logic.

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.

What matters most is finding practical, pragmatic solutions .... Ideological purity is for partisan extremists.

Believe it or not, some Western analysts in the 1930s insisted that Stalin was a 'moderate,' controlled by extremists like the secret police chief Nikolai Yezhov.

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.

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

We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.

There are moderates in Syria who we should be supporting.

Predictions of a disappearing political center are a warning of a bleak future that we can avoid only by adhering to our nation's founding principles.