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I'm a centrist. -- Scott McClellan
I am not a centrist. -- Bella Abzug
I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist. -- Anthony Lewis
I'm someone who believes in centrist governing philosophy. -- Scott McClellan
My audience is much more center right, or centrist. -- Chris Matthews
For most of my life, I've considered myself a political centrist. -- Mark McKinnon
I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd. -- Brad Bird
I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash. -- Jeb Bush
I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates. -- Bob Graham
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
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
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
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
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 road? They get run over. -- Rob Lowe
Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy. -- Tom Hayden
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
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
I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home. -- Tom Vilsack
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
I'm not a centrist, and there's nothing about me that's centrist. I never have been. -- David Cross
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist. -- Cornel West
The media claimed to be non-partisan, centrist. It's not been that way for a lot of history. -- William Kristol
I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues. -- Howard Gordon
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
The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore -- Andrew Sullivan
I think that in politics, when people want to discredit a particular position, they say, "Oh, they are liberals," or "They are conservatives; we are centrists." Everybody wants to be a centrist. -- Robert Reich
Steve Bannon has quoted as lamenting the fact that he predicts a "Fox News" that will be more centrist in the future. He came after our boss Rupert Murdoch in some unflattering terms. -- Megyn Kelly
I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where's this center - somewhere between Lenin and Stalin? -- Ann Coulter
I'm an avowed centrist, and I believe that - centrism is often - it's almost the wrong word to use, because it's often seen as sort of splitting the difference between right and left. -- Tony Blair

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