Moderates Quotes - Page 13

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

  Colin Powell

  Strong, Views, Defense

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• In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Gun, Abortion

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW -- A Statesman And a Man Of Faith / With a lifetime of public service to his credit, the former president reflects on the beliefs that have sustained him". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. January 12, 1997.

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• '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

  New York, Nice, Mean

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• A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

  Clarence Day

  Money, Hurt, Taken

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• 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.

  Clint Eastwood

  Play, People, Hollywood

  "Transcript of Clint Eastwood speech at RNC". www.foxnews.com. August 30, 2012.

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• You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Ambition, Greatness

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.25, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Like I say, if [Barack] Obama really, really wanted to use the law to stop acts of militant terrorism, he would get hold of the architects of Sharia, as the American president, and he'd say, "You know, you guys, you're gonna have to moderate this. This is not good. It's not right."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, Guy, President

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I can only hope that Trump comes to realize the grave dangers of adopting a policy of confrontation toward Iran. Among these dangers is the likelihood that hardliners would again gain the upper hand in the governing process in Tehran, and the moderates who have sought to end national and regional tensions would be marginalized, or worse.

  Richard A. Falk

  Hands, Iran, Would Be

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• ... 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, Use

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1777). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.73

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• There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations: they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon.

  John Stuart Mill

  Strong, Average, Class

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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• The distinction between radical Islam and moderate Muslims is important, as are the differences between Sunnis and Shiites, and between militant and mystical Islam.

  Walter Kasper

  Differences, Islam, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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

  Mean, Hands, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Traditional Muslims stand at the foot of the ladder, living in guilt for not really practicing Islam. At the top are fundamentalists, the ones you see in the news killing women and children for the glory of the god of the Qur'an. Moderates are somewhere in between. A moderate Muslim is actually more dangerous than a fundamentalist, however, because he appears to be harmless, and you can never tell when he has taken that next step toward the top. Most suicide bombers began as moderates.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Suicide, Children, Taken

  "Son of Hamas". Book by Mosab Hassan Yousef and Ron Brackin, March 2010.

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• Our mind is like a fog; even a moderate wind disperses it easily.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fog, Wind, Mind

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• I am relieved that, in my own teaching, I don't have to moderate between high stake teaching and education for the virtues. If I did, I would give students the tools to take the tests but not spend an inordinate amount of time on test prep nor on 'teaching to the test.' If the students, or their parents, want drill in testing, they'd have to go elsewhere. As a professional, my most important obligation is to teach the topic, skills, and methods in ways that I feel are intellectually legitimate.

  Howard Gardner

  Teaching, Skills, Giving

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago.

  Noam Chomsky

  Generations, Today, Republican

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.

  Edward Gibbon

  Party, Fire, Fields

  Edward Gibbon, J. B. Bury (2013). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edited in Seven Volumes with Introduction, Notes, Appendices, and Index”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

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• "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

  Republican, Schwarzenegger, Social

  Mark Steyn (2011). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.236, Regnery Publishing

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• To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

  Edward Gibbon

  Assessment, Soldier, Proud

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.3284, e-artnow

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• It's a principle that anything our leaders do is for noble reasons. It may be mistaken, it may be ugly, but basically noble. And if you bring in normal moderate, conservative, strategic, economic objectives you threatening that principle.

  Noam Chomsky

  Leader, Principles, Noble

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 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

  Care, Republican, Democrat

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• It's possible a Palestinian state will be installed over the heads of the Palestinians. It could be part of an agreement between the Israeli government and moderate Arab states, but not one between Israel and the Palestinians.

  Amos Oz

  Government, Israel, Agreement

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Gradual and moderate warming brings benefits as well as incurring costs. These benefits and costs will not, of course, be felt uniformly throughout the world; the colder regions of the world will be more affected by the benefits, and the hotter regions by the costs.

  Nigel Lawson

  Cost, Benefits, World

  Nigel Lawson (2009). “AN Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming”, p.68, The Overlook Press

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• The American people as a whole are really pretty moderate. They're not, as a whole, conservative or liberal. The right wing is marching the Republican Party off a cliff.

  Barbara Boxer

  Party, Wings, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• Eisenhower provided the first break in the Cold War, by bringing Khrushchev to the United States, in humanizing the Soviets; and then Nixon, by making the opening to China; and then Reagan, even meeting in Reykjavik with Gorbachev and acknowledging that nuclear weapons are a horror. So I won't accept that Republicans just escalate. Republicans, at least when they were more moderate, they were maybe even more isolationist, they sometimes brought sanity to the debate. We don't have that now. We have - all these Republicans have gone off the neoconservative deep end.

  Robert Scheer

  War, United States, Nuclear

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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