Moderate Republican Quotes & Sayings

The central problem of brand-building is getting a complex organization to execute a simple idea. — Marty Neumeier

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

They want to know what I do with all my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. — Ray Bradbury

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

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

The Hubbermanns had two of their own (children), but they were older and had moved out ... Soon they would be both in the war. One would be making bullets. The other would be shooting them. — Markus Zusak

Both parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period of the past generation. Mainstream Democrats are now pretty much what used to be called "moderate Republicans." Meanwhile, the Republican Party has largely drifted off the spectrum, becoming what respected conservative political analyst Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein call a "radical insurgency" that has virtually abandoned normal parliamentary politics. With — Noam Chomsky

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore. — Bill Maher

I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is ... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating. — Pat Meehan

"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

Old people die. It's what they do. ~ Amy — Beth Revis

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

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

This is why we work together," he said. "We're different, but harmonious". — Olivia Cunning

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

There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to. — La India

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't. — Eugene Ormandy

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

I also think the party needs to work on a couple different fronts. There are so many fault lines within the party: conservative vs. moderate, the more fiscally minded Republicans vs. the more socially minded Republicans, the Old Guard - the sort of Newt Gingrich-Karl Rove Republican - vs. the New Guard - the Michael Steele-Sarah Palin sort of emerging sect of the party. And the party has to decide what direction it's going to go in. — Andrea Tantaros

I've always been a huge family person. Growing up with such a huge family, it was just amazing, so coming home to that is always awesome and ... it makes me happy. — Kendall Jenner

As human beings, we haven't lost our intuition; we just stopped paying attention — Heidi DuPree

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development. — Ernest Hemingway,

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

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

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

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

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

When Pat Buchanan came out against the Beijing Women's Conference and there were women standing next to him, smiling and laughing when he was making fun of it, I was so embarrassed. I don't mind when the more liberal or moderate Republican women talk about smaller government or money issues and things of that nature. But when I see a conservative Republican woman in line with the Christian right or coming out against abortion and day-care issues and for taking away womens' aid, I see a self-hating, unenlightened woman, like a self-hating Jew. That blows my mind. I don't get it at all. — Janeane Garofalo

What fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day? — Randy Glasbergen

I think I can sing, but that does not mean I can actually sing. I fear that I'm like one of those 'American Idol' contestants who truly believe they are good and are actually dreadful. — Kenneth Choi

'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

None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better ... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything, and they're absolutely the most miserable people in the world. So it won't do anything for you unless you're a happy person and can have peace with yourself. — Lenny Kravitz

Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. - They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men. — John F. Kennedy

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

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican. — Elon Musk

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

The nomination of Richard Nixon cemented the ascendance of a conservative over a moderate ideology within the Republican Party, a dominance that has only grown more pronounced over the years as the party has continued its move to the right and moderates have dwindled in numbers and influence. I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party as much as it left me. I — Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

Had Schleicher been successful in his leadership of the German government at the end of 1932, he would probably have headed a very moderate, essentially anti-Nazi form of nationalist authoritarianism that would have avoided a sharp break with the republican constitution and promoted a reflationary, reformist economic policy along Keynesian or New Deal lines to revive the economy and conciliate German society. — Stanley G. Payne

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

Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink. — Taraji P. Henson

Their callous indifference to the plight of children streaming across the border, fleeing horrific circumstances in their own country. Republicans are simply strangled by extremism. There is no more establishment, or middle or moderate wing. You've got the Steve King wing of the Republican Party today, who raised the specter of impeachment this weekend. — Debbie Wasserman Schultz