Jonathan Klein Quotes

In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

We started out as far to the left as we could.

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

As a university student and activist, I was attacked from all quarters from the far right to the far left.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

I am not a centrist.

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.

The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.

Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray.

The left hand of the right wing.

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

Left-wing confusion spawns right-wing reaction.

In New York, the opposite of a Democrat is not a Republican; it’s a Fascist.

Many conservative assumptions are made in reaction to liberal assumptions.

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right

The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.

I listen to the far left which informs the far right. Somewhere in the middle is where we end up.

When most people see the word "radical," they think that it must refer to something left wing. Some people also may think of it as referring to far right-wing marginal groups. But here we have a president of the United States [George W. Bush] at the center of power, sitting in the White House, who is a radical.

I'm not a centrist, and there's nothing about me that's centrist. I never have been.

Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.