Moderates Quotes

• The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

  

  Meriwether Lewis
  • Absence
  • Hares
  • Porcupines

• Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.

  

  Richard Owen
  • Appreciation
  • Importance
  • Dependence

• ... the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.

  

  George Washington
  • Strong
  • Army
  • Benefits

• I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Extraordinary

• The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

  

  Helen Suzman
  • Moderation
  • Extremist
  • Moderates

• I have travelled a great deal - to Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt - and can very well differentiate between moderate Muslims and Islam.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Wells
  • Deals
  • Islam

• His [Donald Trump]support is crossing wide swaths of the party. It`s not just the evangelicals. It`s the moderates, as well.

  

  Katy Tur
  • Support
  • Party
  • Wide

• I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

  

  Mia Love
  • People
  • Independent
  • Moderates

• However, there are moderate and non-moderate Muslims, I acknowledge that.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Acknowledge
  • Moderates

• To regain our political footing, we must prove to moderates that Democrats can make tough choices.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Political
  • Choices
  • Democrats

• What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Kind
  • Taken

• All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.

  

  Mohammed Omar
  • Middle
  • Conservatism
  • Moderates

• I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.

  

  Evan Thomas
  • Republicans
  • Comparison
  • Extremists

• Moderate Islam? That's a contradiction. It's going to be a long time before we see a new Koran, an equivalent to the New Testament. Attacks don't happen in the name of Buddhism or Christianity; nor do homosexuals get beaten up, as happens daily in Amsterdam.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Islam
  • Contradiction
  • Moderates

• These are times when what used to be called liberal is now called radical; what used to be called radical is now called insane; what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate; and what used to be called insane is now called solid, neo-conservative thinking.

  

  Katrina vanden Heuvel
  • Thinking
  • Conservative
  • Insane

• The west is very concerned and actually afraid because the media is not informing them. There are too many moderate Muslims who are trying to whitewash the fears and concerns of the West. It's time for us to face reality - nobody is against Muslims. When I'm speaking about this situation, it's about Islamic doctrine. Islamic doctrine promotes violence and hatred against non Muslims. 60% of the Koran is dedicated to cursing and spreading hatred and violence against non-Muslims who are called 'Kaffir'.

  

  Reza Aslan
  • Reality
  • Situation
  • Dedicated

• Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Ends
  • Prudence
  • Moderates

• The only way Democrats can govern in this country is by making common cause with moderates and independents.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Democrats
  • Govern
  • Moderates

• The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

  

  Richard Neal
  • Republican
  • Moderates

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

  

  Carolyn McCarthy
  • Democrat
  • Moderates

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

  

  Rick Bayan
  • People
  • Perceive
  • Moderates