Top 65 Quotes About Moderates: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Moderates

#1. We live in a time when moderates are treated worse than extremists, being punished as if they were more fanatical than the actual fanatics.

Orson Scott Card

#2. For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

Joe Klein

#3. Religion is to democracy as a bridle is to a horse. Religion moderates democracy because it appeals to an authority higher than democracy itself.5 But

Charles J. Chaput

#4. Latinos are just like everybody else. There are conservatives. There are moderates. There are liberals.

Geraldo Rivera

#5. these ideological cliques form in a government--or any other organization. Subordinates are always chosen for their agreement with the views of their superiors, and the extremists always get to the top and shove the moderates under or out.

H. Beam Piper

#6. Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.

Sam Harris

#7. There weren't any moderates left in the government of Iran.

Tim Weiner

#8. Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.

Sam Harris

#9. Many religious moderates have taken the apparent high road of pluralism, asserting the equal validity of all faiths, but in doing so they neglect to notice the irredeemably sectarian truth claims of each.

Sam Harris

#10. As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading.

Lincoln Chafee

#11. I write about what life was like for typical young women of the sixties - not the type that made headlines, the Hanoi Janes or Angela Davises, but moderates who nonetheless got swept up by history's tides during that turbulent time. All that turmoil lends itself to drama, intrigue, and murder.

Kay Kendall

#12. Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

Mark Thomas

#13. It's the ideology, stupid. Unless the long-term decline of moderates and rise of conservatives is reversed during the next two years, the ideological balance of the electorate in 2012 could look a lot like it did this year.

William Galston

#14. Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts.

Ken Follett

#15. I have never said that the terrorists' interpretation of Islam is the accurate or correct one. But I have pointed out that the terrorists portray themselves quite successfully among Muslims as the exponents of true and pure Islam, and moderates have mounted no successful response as yet.

Robert Spencer

#16. By failing to live by the letter of the texts, while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally.

Sam Harris

#17. Obama and the Democrats are not focused on the moderates. They're focused on getting their base out, and they're trying to expand that base by forming sympathetic, empathetic alliances with the downtrodden, and there are a lot of downtrodden because Obama has made them that way via his policies.

Rush Limbaugh

#18. Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go.

Pete Du Pont

#19. What did John Ashcroft say about moderates, he said, quote, there are two things you find in the middle of the road, a moderate and a dead skunk and I don't want to be either,

John Ashcroft

#20. Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.

Luc De Clapiers

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

Helen Suzman

#22. There are moderates in Syria who we should be supporting.

John Kasich

#23. 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

#24. Tool of Communist agitators ... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand.

Helen Suzman

#25. 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

#26. All Taleban 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

#27. While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

Eliot Spitzer

#28. Catholics are every bit as diverse as any other sort of voters out there, with conservative Democrats and moderates.

Bob Casey Jr.

#29. Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Timothy Noah

#30. Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get done. This makes some conservatives and some liberals furious, nervous, and me nervous a little bit, because I'm a pretty pure conservative. So that's a potential of his leadership.

Jeff Sessions

#31. The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.

Mike Lee

#32. I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era.

Barack Obama

#33. The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#34. Don't get politics mixed up in this. It's all about money and it makes no difference if the Social Democrats or the moderates appoint the ministers

Stieg Larsson

#35. The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.

Claire McCaskill

#36. The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.

Najib Razak

#37. The vast majority of Muslims are moderates working for a better future and seeking a peaceful life.

Ahmed Zewail

#38. My statement to Harris that his book contains much to admire is specious hyperbole. In The End of Faith, Harris rails against religious fundamentalism, which seems obvious, as well as against religious moderates, which seems intolerant.

Nick Flynn

#39. The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates.

Ronald H. Nash

#40. The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

Paul Valery

#41. We need somebody ready to be commander-in-chief on day one, who understands there are no moderates in Iran; they've been killed a long time ago.

Lindsey Graham

#42. You're shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#43. Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

Elliott Abrams

#44. A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

William Hazlitt

#45. Americans have called on moderates in Muslim countries to speak out against extremists, to stand up for the tolerance they say they believe in. We should all have the guts do the same at home.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#46. Some say while religious fundamentalists betray reason. Moderates betray faith and reason equally. -Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion(Documentary)

Sam Harris

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

Rick Bayan

#48. Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.

Gary Bauer

#49. Today we're seeing fundamental conflicts within political Islam, with the fundamentalists on the one side and the moderates on the other. Who gains the upper hand means a great deal to the world.

Zalmay Khalilzad

#50. Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#51. People of all political persuasions - conservatives, moderates, and liberals alike - need to dedicate themselves once again to preserving the moral foundation of our society.

Tipper Gore

#52. My view on Democrats is that they're fascists disguised as liberals, or liberal moderates. You're not allowed to say anything they don't agree with. You're not allowed to do anything.

Glenn Danzig

#53. People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.

Barack Obama

#54. Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

Juvenal

#55. I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.

Abraham Lincoln

#56. You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

Seneca The Elder

#57. In politics, everyone regards themselves as a moderate, because they know some other sumbitch who's twice as crazy as they are.

Timothy B. Tyson

#58. There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

Jean De La Bruyere

#59. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#60. Everything you say,' Geno said rather irritably, 'contradicts itself.'
'Of course it does,' the screech owl rejoined obscurely. 'Otherwise, how would anyone ever keep to the middle of the road?

Felix Salten