Radical centrism Quotes

“How can we be of use to the developing world?”

“How can we give everyone a fair start in life?”

“How can we give ourselves more choices in life?”

“How can we maximize our potential as human beings?”

“radical center”

“Renata Adler, Toward a Radical Middle: Fourteen Pieces of Reporting and Criticism (1969).”

“Wikipedia: Radical centrism”

“If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.”

“Denis Beckett, Radical Middle: Confessions of an Accidental Revolutionary (2010). Published in South Africa.”

“Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.”

“Many nonpartisan or post-partisan Americans are asking basic questions, now, that can move us toward a new and more relevant politics. Here are four I've put front and center in this book:”

“Joe Klein, "Stalking the Radical Middle". Newsweek (24 September 1995), pp. 32–36. The reprint omits Klein's byline.”

“More than two centuries ago, Benjamin Franklin wanted us to invent a uniquely American politics that served ordinary people by creatively borrowing from all points of view. It's not too late for us to listen to him.”

“Noel Pearson, Up From the Mission: Selected Writings, 2nd ed. (2011), "The Quest for a Radical Centre" section. Published in Australia.”

“The underlying purpose of the Radical Centrist program is to further expand America’s perennial goals of individual liberty, equality of opportunity, and national unity in the new circumstances of the Information Age.”

“I'd like to work on having every fourth year become a year in which no laws are made, but the old laws are reviewed, updated, or deleted as needed. That way we won't get endless, obsolete laws piling up on the books.”

“We proved that with civility, common sense, building bridges, working with coalitions and working with people one at a time, we could do something. … I can speak for the middle. … The real issue is the system itself.”

“Robert L. Olson, "The Rise of 'Radical Middle' Politics". The Futurist (January–February 2005), pp. 45–47. Publication of the World Future Society.”

“I am not a career politician. I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a Republican. I'm a working man with commonsense ideas and goals. I describe myself politically as fiscally conservative and socially moderate-to-liberal.”

“What American politics urgently needs ... is not a new left, but a new center. Domestic debate needs to be re-centered around a handful of fundamental goals on which all of us can agree, whether we call ourselves Republicans, Democrats, or Independents.”