I'm not speaking in favor of killing innovation. I'm speaking in favor of centrist use of the market, which involves necessarily a considerable degree of regulation. Markets by themselves will get themselves inevitably into inequality and into their own destruction. It will happen again and again.

Paul Samuelson

I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.

Anthony Lewis

Only in Washington can the pursuit of a conservative agenda, with centrist policies, be depicted as liberal reform.

Ari Melber

I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In his day, the definition of a conservative right-wing president is more like a centrist in our own time. He's also one of our funnier presidents - just a really good character to write about.

Austin Grossman

I am not a centrist.

Bella Abzug

I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.

Bob Graham

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.

Brad Bird

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

Chris Matthews

For too many years, those eligible to vote in primary or general elections did not bother to do so. Those sensible centrists who do not go to rallies but care deeply about our country effectively silenced their own voices. That sent the message to incumbents that they were either doing the right thing or that we just did not care.

Christine Todd Whitman

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

Daniel Dennett

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

David K. Shipler

When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.

Edward Brooke

To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.

Evgeny Morozov

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.

Henry Louis Gates

Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

Ian McShane

I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.

Jeb Bush

My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.

Jeffrey Skoll

Historically, the pull towards the center in European politics has been incredibly powerful. From Italy to Germany, it has been almost impossible for non-centrist forces to obtain real influence.

Jens Nordvig

I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.

John Avlon

By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.

Jonathan Haidt

Within the paradigm of Democratic politics, even though people probably think I'm a centrist, I'm more a liberal, except for abortion.

Kirsten Powers