Alan Colmes Quotes

I'm what you would call an 'independent moderate.'

I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.

Centrism is bogus.

I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

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'm a centrist.

I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.

I'm conservative on some things, and I'm not on others.

People ask me if I'm liberal or conservative. I say neither - I'm pragmatic.

I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

I am not a centrist.

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.

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.

I'm not an extremist, you know.

Most people perceive moderates as timid middle-of-the-roaders who can't take a stand.

Most Americans reject an absolutist sense of religious or political truth.

The best position the government could assume would be that of moderation between opposite extremes of Ultra-Toryism and Radicalism

Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint--being in the middle--usually brings about seclusion and isolation!

Extremes can be right on no side.

We don't give up on our values, but we better be sensitive, too, that there are people with more moderate views and people who may disagree with some parts of the Democratic platform as they are presented.