Third Way Quotes

Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

The ultimate case for the third way is that it works …. The third way, in the end, must lift our adversaries as well as our friends.

I've taken my time. I've thought about it; I've consulted, and I've decided that we are going to create a new political movement, one that will be neither on the Right or the Left.

I think the Mussolinean institution of a third way alternative to comunism is currently still very relevant.

I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.

I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy.

I like Tony Blair.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Arnold was on the 'Today' show today, he was a little light on specifics. He said he could solve California's $38 billion budget deficit, without cutting spending or raising taxes because there was a third way. What is it? Let's just say it involves a robot going back in time to convince Gray Davis to go into dentistry.

What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.

I even believed in a third way; I thought it was possible to put a human face on capitalism. But I was wrong. The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as something that had to be taken on board while at the same time seeking to retain as much as possible of the Labour legacy, or 'Labour values,' as he would put it.

I'm a centrist.

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

Until I read Neill's book, 'Summerhill,' I thought there were only two ways to bring up children, either with authoritarian discipline or with permissiveness. Either way, hopefully, applied with love. Now I know there is a third way: teaching a child self*regulation, not by coercion or by abandoning discipline, but by freedom with responsibility.

I'm considered a new Democrat, which would be considered moderate.

My kids and I figured out that there’s a third kind of person, and I don’t know what you call them, but it’s somebody who sees that the glass is always full because it’s half full with water and half full with nothing, so that’s the third kind of person. I don’t know what it is.

We're finding a third way for biologists to change the world. It's very hard to change the world when the only directions available in biology are academia and the pharmaceutical industry.

Conflict is good in a negotiation process... it's the clash of two ideas, which then, all being well, produces a third idea.

I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.

I don't accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.