Moderate Quotes

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.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

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.

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana.

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

What the voters told us in the 2010 election was that they wanted a change. And I believe a moderate approach with a dedication to working across the aisle, something I know is important to both me and Congressman Shuler, is the best way forward.

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

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.

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

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.

The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place.

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.

As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.

It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.

Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam.

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.

Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.