Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the…

Political orientation is unimportant in populism because it does not deal in evidence or detailed proposals for change but in the manipulation of feelings…

— Margaret MacMillan

“Regardless of your political orientation, if you are reasonably intelligent, you should strongly resent being manipulated. Guileful scoundrels in business, government, and media smugly…

— Joseph Befumo

“Thus political orientation about social issues reflects sensitivity to visceral disgust and strategies for coping with such disgust.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“If Christians today understood this distinction between the role of the private Christian citizen and the Christian in government, they might sound less like…

— Charles W. Colson

“With a few exceptions, conservative Christian political activists are as ineffective as White Russian exiles, drinking tea from samovars in their Paris drawing rooms,…

— Rod Dreher

“Christian political theory does not adhere to a passive conservatism. nor is it enamored of progress. It is conservative in principles, but progressive in…

— Heinrich A. Rommen

“Following the Lord's authority, one of the distinctives of Christian cultural understanding is that it also is minimally concerned with politics. The restoration of…

— Douglas Wilson

I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have…

— Cornel West

What I want to try to do is unify the two wings of the Democratic Party. What's considered the more progressive wing of the…

— Barack Obama

I am not a centrist.

— Bella Abzug

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

We're living in a world that's divided into two economies: the economy of the 1%, and the economy of the bottom 99%. I guess…

— Michael Hudson

I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the…

— Rob Lowe

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

How is it that labels like 'centrist' and 'moderate,' which common sense tells us should reflect the views of a majority of Americans, have…

— Mehdi Hasan