Moderate Republican Quotes

#1. There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

Bill Maher

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

Richard Neal

#3. He changed his position on virtually everything. I'm a moderate Republican, that's what I am, so I'd be inclined to support someone like Mitt Romney. But all those changes give me pause.

Rudy Giuliani

#4. 'Moderate Republican' is simply how the blabocracy flatters Republicans who vote with the Democrats. If it weren't so conspicuous, the 'New York Times' would start referring to 'nice Republicans' and 'mean Republicans'

Ann Coulter

#5. I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.

Colin Powell

#6. If something is wrong with you, hate someone else for it

Mark Hoppus

#7. "Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

Mark Steyn

#8. Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.

Martin Buber

#9. Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.

Garrison Keillor

#10. It is no longer acceptable to simply assert your moral beliefs; you have to provide reasons for them, and those reasons had better be grounded in rational arguments and empirical evidence or else they will likely be ignored or rejected.

Michael Shermer

#11. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz on the Republican side. On the Democratic side, he sees Hillary Clinton struggling a bit. Mayor [Michael] Bloomberg sees a big lane in the middle for a moderate former Republican who believes in gun control and climate change.

Don Gonyea

#12. There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.

Lindsey Graham

#13. I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican that I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive .

Mitt Romney

#14. Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Harper Lee

#15. The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate.

Pete Du Pont

#16. I don't care if they're Republican liberals or Democrat liberals, they're still liberals. They're not 'moderates.' Don't hit me with that. There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise.

Rush Limbaugh

#17. When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.

Carl Paladino

#18. 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.

Claire McCaskill

#19. Bob Goff loves people with a force that is natural, and by natural I mean like nature, like a waterfall or wind or waves on the ocean. He loves effortlessly, as though love packs annually in snow on a mountain, melting and rushing through him in an infinite loop.

Bob Goff

#20. The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans.

Rudy Giuliani

#21. Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that the establishment, moderate wing of the party has sidelined itself. They're not coalescing around one candidate as they have in the past.

Mara Liasson

#22. The things you have heard are true; we are the mothers of monsters. We would, however, like to clarify a few points. For instance, by the time we realized what Jeffrey had been up to, he was gone.

Ellen Datlow

#23. My mode of presentation is short-form video - basically I create fast cut, impassioned 'idea explainers' that explode with enthusiasm and intensity as they distill how technology is expanding our sphere of possibility.

Jason Silva

#24. I'm not going to fly a million miles with somebody I don't know.

Adriana Lima

#25. Whereas Jesus and his disciples were distrusted by the state largely because they respected the poor and shared everything, the fundamentalists of the present hour would appear not to know that the poor exist.

James Baldwin

#26. I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

Peter Shilton

#27. Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.

Barry White

#28. The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it?

Dan Rather

#29. The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.

Bobby Jindal

#30. We found a jewel in the desert,'" I quoted. "'And from it fashioned a charred cinder.
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Anthony Ryan

#31. Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.

Barney Frank

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

Elon Musk