Thom Tillis Quotes

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.

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.

There are too many political moderates in America.

I am not a centrist.

The Republican and Democratic parties have accomplished an amazing feat with the red state/blue state paradigm. They've convinced everyone that regardless of how bad they are, the other guy is worse.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

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

If we look conservative, it's because the other guys are so far to the left.

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.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

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

I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

The left hand of the right wing.

The field of politics always presents the same struggle. There are the Right and the Left, and in the middle is the Swamp. The Swamp is made up of know-nothings, of them who are without ideas, of them who are always with the majority.

Left-wing confusion spawns right-wing reaction.

In this country there are two parties: the righteous and the fallacious

Liberals and the Democratic Party are demonic.

People at the political extremes have an advantage over the rest of us. Only they seem to know exactly who and what is wrong with America and precisely what policies and programs should be adopted to fix it.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

For years Pelosi has been the ultimate Republican boogeyman - or boogeywoman, as it were. She's a frequent target of Republican ire for being too far to the left - and she's also a target among progressives for not being far left enough.

I'm fearful the Democratic Party is already moving too far to the left. I want to push the Democratic Party to be more in touch with mainstream America, and on some issues, that's more left, and on some issues it might be more right.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

There's a real sense - that we have to get past on the left - that every person who voted for Trump is evil.