Quotes About Centrism

Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party.

Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.

I'm a centrist.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

the far right where politicians are spending so much energy harvesting votes these days is not Australia. Nearly all of us are somewhere else, scattered around the centre, waiting for a government that will take this good, prosperous, generous country into the future.

Kennedy then warned of "the siren temptation of those with seemingly swift and easy answers on the far right and the far left." It

MEADE ESPOSITO HAD a simple explanation for Rockefeller's failure to achieve the presidency: "He was too liberal for the Republicans, and too conservative for the Democrats." Were

The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.

When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe.

Isn't the dull pain of the centrists conformity delicious, edgelord?

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

I'm not an extremist, you know.

To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

People no longer wanted right or left—they wanted middle-of-the-road.

If centrist parties face the challenges and start working for their people more efficiently, the ground for left- or right-wing populism will become less fertile.

What I would like to build is a new centre, a wider, broader centre, which would encompass a lot of different philosophies - you know, the philosophy that I'm putting forward that is a market liberal philosophy and a socially liberal philosophy but would have room in it for a broader church than that.

If you look at Indian cinema, it has always been about the 'hero.' So it is not just a characteristic of the Kannada film industry in particular. But one of the reasons to explain the 'hero-centrism' in our industry could be the fact that the audience here really enjoys the action sequences and the 'punch' dialogues.

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.