Moderates Quotes - Page 7

• One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.

  Jack Welch

  Thoughtful, Fringe, Careful

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• You know how on the evening news they always tell you that the stock market is up in active trading, or off in moderate trading, or trading in mixed activity, or whatever. Well, who gives a

  Dave Barry

  Giving, News, Evening

  Dave Barry (1997). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”

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• Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.

  Martha Stewart

  Care, Heroic, Plant

  Martha Stewart (2000). “Gardening 101”, Clarkson Potter

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• There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

  Bill Maher

  Republican

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• I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Walkers

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• It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry...... [it must be moderate] lest men forget themselves, drown their senses,.....in making merry [those who enjoy wine] feel a livelier gratitude to God.

  John Calvin

  Gratitude, Wine, Men

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• If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspire, Directors, United States

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• We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives.

  James Salter

  Spills, Knows, Our Lives

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.36, Vintage

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• We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just as good food. They can see just as fine paintings, just as marvelous statues, and they can hear just as good music. They can attend the same theaters and the same operas. They can enjoy the same sunshine, and above all, can love and be loved just as well as kings and millionaires.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Money, Kings, Sunshine

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Miscellany”

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• 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

  Party, Trying, Welcome

  "Battle for the Senate on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best.

  Thucydides

  Yield, Succeed, Certain

  Thucydides, Ruth Finnegan “History of Greece”, Lulu.com

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• As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Hate, Believe, Saint

  Lapham's Quarterly, Alexander Hamilton, Ezra Pound, Richard Hofstadter, Thomas Jefferson (2016). “Alexander Hamilton: Lapham's Quarterly - Special Issue”, p.63, Pronoun

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• Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

  Edward Abbey

  Secret, Balance, World

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.233, University of Arizona Press

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• Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Business, Hate, Stress

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• Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

  John Podhoretz

  Government, President, Executive Power

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Desire, Tongue

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• I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society; Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare; and remnants of the pro-business moderates.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Party, Warrior, Government

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• The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Art, Advantage, Results

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• It's important to reach out to moderate Arab nations, like Jordan and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

  George W. Bush

  Kuwait, Egypt, Important

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• If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.

  Paul Keating

  Government, Australia, Done

  Interview with John Laws, Radio 2GB, May 14, 1986.

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• There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.

  Judith Martin

  Love, Inspirational, Witty

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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• He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Blessed, Littles, Poverty

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.57, e-artnow

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• As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.

  Ann Coulter

  Crazy, Middle, Concerned

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.82, Crown Forum

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• The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.

  Claire McCaskill

  Political, Shows, Extremes

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• Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Atheist, Buddhist

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, p. 375, 1965.

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