Quotes About Centrism

The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.

The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19 and editor of my college paper - is an abhorrence of the extreme.

Oh, if only that was the last time in America that the extreme left and extreme right broke down and made a mess of things, leaving everyone in the center to suffer.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

I agree with you, that in Politicks the Middle Way is none at all.

I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

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

If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

At the end of the day, Democrats go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far left; Republicans go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far right. Hey, there's a big middle ground here that's not represented. I think that, Bill Weld and myself, I think the Libertarian Party really occupies that ground.

I find it obvious that, in a first-past-the-post electoral system, we need to head towards the centre.

The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.

As the Democratic Party drifts more leftward, there is an urgent need for a center-right party to argue for a different vision and governing philosophy.

Extremes should be avoided.

The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.

The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.

I think the Republican Party has moved substantially to the right, particularly on social issues... And the Democratic Party has moved to the left over the past decades. So we've got a lot more room in the middle.

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

Those of us who are in the centre believe in opening up to the world, believe migration on balance is a good thing if it is managed properly, and believe that multilateralism is the best way to solve problems.

Extremismos nunca são saudáveis.

I think I'm turning into a libertarian. I'm not part of the gaggle of Hollywood liberals. I gaggle for no one, and I'm not a liberal. I'm libo-conservo-rado-middle-of-the-roado.

What did John Ashcroft say about moderates, he said, quote, there are two things you find in the middle of the road, a moderate and a dead skunk and I don't want to be either.

The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life.