Words matter. These are the best Centrist Quotes from famous people such as Pat Buchanan, Kirsten Powers, Steve Bannon, Scott McClellan, Chris Matthews, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.
Within the paradigm of Democratic politics, even though people probably think I’m a centrist, I’m more a liberal, except for abortion.
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.
I’m a centrist.
My audience is much more center right, or centrist.
I’m getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.
My views tend to be centrist. I’m not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.
I’m not speaking in favor of killing innovation. I’m speaking in favor of centrist use of the market, which involves necessarily a considerable degree of regulation. Markets by themselves will get themselves inevitably into inequality and into their own destruction. It will happen again and again.
Hillary Clinton is a centrist Democrat who is more hawkish than President Obama and far more principled and knowledgeable about foreign affairs than Trump, who is too unstable and erratic to be entrusted with the nuclear triad he has never heard of.
I’m looking for some centrist political party to find a home in and it’s not there, actually.
I’m a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.
I think that liberalism and the centrist governing elite of this country need to learn lessons from the Trump phenomenon. It is part of the way that the country is governed and the country is shaped that induces spasms of populism, including spasms of bigoted populism.
A lot of these so-called left positions are actually centrist by the standards of the American people, just not by members of the American Congress.
By temperament and disposition and emotions, I’m a liberal; but in my beliefs about what’s best for the country, I’m a centrist.
I have been called many things in public life, but the cap that best fits is that of the centrist dad.
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.
My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right.
I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.
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.
When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country – even Reagan.
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.
While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.
I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.
No one can deny that Marco Rubio is an attractive candidate. Rubio has a dream, and he has a strategy to fulfill that dream. He is a more formidable candidate than Jeb Bush because he is articulate and is running as a ‘centrist conservative.’
I am not a centrist.
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.
How is it that labels like ‘centrist’ and ‘moderate,’ which common sense tells us should reflect the views of a majority of Americans, have come to be applied to those who represent minority interests and opinions?
Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He’s a black man. That’s what it is: it’s racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He’s a centrist.
Look, the Black community is diverse. We have generational divides. We have class divides. We have parts of the Black community that are fairly centrist, parts that are extremely activist.
Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don’t help.
