"Middle of the road" political quotations

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Wednesday's New York Sun had a "Presidential Debate Preview" chat with
William Weld.


29 September 2004, NEW YORK SUN, pg. 9, col. 2:
It seems a wry homage to Jim Hightower's line that "the only thing that
belongs in the middle of the road is a yellow line an a dead armadillo."

(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)
How to Talk 'Texian'
By Robert Reinhold. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Jul
22, 1984. p. SM8 (2 pages)
Pg. SM9:
Politicans are past masters. Jim Hightower, state agricultural commissioner,
on why he's not a middle-of-the-road politician: "Ain't nothing in the middle
of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos."



29 September 2004, NEW YORK SUN, pg. 9, col. 4:
Private ruminations on the fate of his stuffed armadillo can even be soothed
with this retort from President Eisenhower, another Republican derided by
conservative critics as liberal: "The middle of the road is all of the useable
surface; the extremes of left and right are in the gutter."

(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS_
THE TWO CANDIDATES: A STUDY IN CONTRASTS; Eisenhower a Typical Man of Action
And Stevenson a Man of Thought
By JAMES RESTONSpecial to THE NEW YORK TIMES.. New York Times (1857-Current
file). New York, N.Y.: Jul 27, 1952. p. E3 (1 page):
The general may be to the right of center and the Governor to the left of
center, but if they can dominate the campaign, it will be fought not from the
extremes of the gutter but on the higher ground in the middle of the road.