Ideological Spectrum Quotes

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

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

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

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.

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

Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.

I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Labour has to be a big tent that appeals to everyone - not just its activists.

There can be but two great political parties in this country.

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

Politics is about divisions. Wherever you come in on the subject, there are divisions.

The disagreement among American political parties, with only a few exceptions, has been over the practical question of how to secure the agreed objective, while conciliating different interests, rather than over ultimate values or over what interest is paramount.

We will have a government where liberals will stay in power until they get radical and conservatives will have the power until they get reactionary.

Our political system is based on two parties fighting to capture the middle. Unfortunately the Republican party has been captured by conservative extremists.

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

In truth, the parties of Whig [Liberal] and Tory [Conservative] are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names, or by those of Aristocrats and Democrats, Cote Droite and Cote Gauche, Ultras and Radicals, Serviles, and Liberals.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology.

We need to tell the far-right and the far-left to go away and have people in the center solve the problem.

There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.