Quotes About Centrism

My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.

He is a pragmatist. He is not right wing, nor left wing, nor any wing.

All extremes are dangerous. It is best to keep in the middle of the road, in the common ruts, however muddy.

WHAT THESE EXAMPLES show us is a generation of centrist liberals collectively despairing over democracy itself. After turning their backs on working-class issues, traditionally one of the core concerns of left parties, Democrats stood by while right-wing demagoguery took root and thrived. Then, after the people absorbed a fifty-year blizzard of fake populist propaganda, Democrats turned against the idea of "the people" altogether.17

There is this big yawning gap in the middle of British politics, the Conservative and Labour parties have gone to the edges. In this divided, polarised world, the pragmatic centre ground is a bit unloved.

Now fiscal responsibility is generally a good thing, and so a centrism mindlessly focused on tweaking legislation away from deficit spending has its uses.

Extremists usually describe the middle course as extreme.

That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.

bothsidesism. It's the insistence that whatever excesses of partisanship you may see on the right have an equivalent on the left, that the way forward to solving America's problems is for good centrists of both parties to come together and work things out. All of this is willfully naïve.

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

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

Personally, many of my views are not in the mainstream as I am a centrist-libertarian.