Currents Quote by Eliot Spitzer

The story of the Republican Party is of a far-right that has moved from the fringes of the party to a complete domination of…

— Jonathan Chait

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…

— Claire McCaskill

A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable…

— P. D. James

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…

— Eliot Spitzer

In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and…

— George Washington

Here's the Republican Party with round heels for anybody who says the right thing at the current moment. Regardless of their record, regardless of…

— Chris Matthews

Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude…

— Eliot Spitzer

In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser…

— Bertrand Russell

Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have…

— Sam Harris

And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their…

— Thucydides

The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.

— Ovadia Yosef

It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in…

— Barney Frank

Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that…

— Mara Liasson

Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over…

— John H. Sununu