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Quotes About Centrist

I'm kind of right in the middle - I'm an Independent, not far Left or far Right. But I don't think everyone needs to know about that, do they?
~ Shavo Odadjian
I have been called many things in public life, but the cap that best fits is that of the centrist dad.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right.
~ Peter Landesman
There is no win-win or lose-lose in a situation. Everything is a medium.
~ Tim Hardaway Jr.
I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
~ Pat Paulsen
I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.
~ John Avlon
What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.
~ Henry Louis Gates
Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.
~ Pat Buchanan
There is no denying or hiding the fact that over the years I moved from well on the right of the Conservative Party, much much more to its left, and therefore to the centre of the poltical spectrum.
~ John Bercow
I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.
~ Jeb Bush
Remember that there is no ideology of the moderate—no set of views held by all moderates.
~ George Lakoff
Only in Washington can the pursuit of a conservative agenda, with centrist policies, be depicted as liberal reform.
~ Ari Melber
I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.
~ Calvin Klein
The genius of Barack Obama was precisely that he reached out and over the partisan divisions. He did so explicitly. The desire of some of his present-day critics to drag him back from the centre is absurd. The espousal of centrist politics is not a betrayal. It was what he promised.
~ blair tony ii
My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.
~ Peter Hook
On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.
~ Walter Cronkite
Critics say that Fox News leans right, but the truth is, it's more centrist - it just looks right-wing in comparison to the other news outlets.
~ Steve Bannon
I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over.
~ Rob Lowe
I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.
~ Lisa Kudrow
I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.
~ Anthony Lewis
I think most Minnesotans are in a grey zone politically.
~ Richard Painter
Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.
~ Tom Hayden
I'm quite moderate.
~ Alan Colmes
I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
~ Carl Paladino