A Quote by Jack Welch

One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.

Jack Welch

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Jack Welch
American - Businessman
November 19, 1935 - March 1, 2020

You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We cannot hope to change human nature. There will always be cranks and conspiracy theorists among us. But we can try to improve things - we don't have to accept the debasement of civil discourse or civic decline. We can take steps to ensure that the lunatic fringe remains on the fringe and stops bleeding into the base and then poisoning the mainstream

John Avlon

The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.

Aldous Huxley

You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.

Jack Welch

Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.

Patrick Chappatte

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.

Leonard Baskin

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

Theodore Roosevelt

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

H. L. Mencken

I'm pretty careful about the things I say ahead of time. I'm thoughtful about not going too far. The only thing you can do occasionally is be too much.

Jeff Ross

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Theodore Roosevelt

That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.

Jill Stein

If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell we really got this way. It's a perfectly natural human thought and, okay, if you go into the science class you can't think this. Well, alright, as soon as you leave you can start thinking about it again without giving aid and comfort to the lunatic fringe of the Christian religion.

Kurt Vonnegut

There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.

Theodore Roosevelt

Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.