Better man Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

— Leon Jaworski

You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism…

— Sydney Pollack

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil is not…

— Ayn Rand

No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.

— Mike Tyson

I'm not an extremist, you know.

— Brigitte Bardot

“There is no doctrine called extremism. When tyrants speak of extremists, they just mean people who are not in the mainstream—as the tyrants themselves…

— Timothy Snyder

Rest assured I am not an extremist.

— Jim Watkins

In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.

— John Loeffler

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Edward Abbey

Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.

— Richard M. Nixon