Triangulation Quotes

The 1994 elections that brought Newt Gingrich to power in the House decisively shaped the remaining years of Bill Clinton's presidency, pushing him further to the right and bringing out his latent tendency to govern every day as if an election were being held the next.

What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress.

The ultimate case for the third way is that it works …. The third way, in the end, must lift our adversaries as well as our friends.

The days of Democrats biding our time, biting our tongue, and triangulating at the margins are over.

There is no left or right in economic management today.

Hey, which one of them is supposed to be your boyfriend?” Stark asked me. Even in the terrible shape he was in, he caught my glance with his. His voice was scratchy, and he sounded scarily weak, but his eyes sparkled with humor. I am!” Heath and Erik said together.

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

Triangulation is not a strategy that will move America forward.

A planar geometrical figure with more than three vertices can be decomposed into a set of triangles, and it can be reconstructed from a set of triangles.

… triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in the eye.

My course has never been about triangulation, and neither, really, is Bill Clinton's. It's not - it's about applying your values to the future in a practical and unblinking way, and that is an ideological view that is every bit as strong as views from the left or from the right.