Waterston: 'The Center Is Not Such a Bad Place'

March 18, 2007 — -- "Law and Order" star Sam Waterston has joined Unity 08 (click here for link), an effort to empower the political center and elect a bipartisan ticket to the White House.

Sam Waterston: There's a huge majority of the American people who are ready for this, who are not represented in the current system, and this is an opportunity for those people to speak up, go to Unity08.com, sign up, become a delegate and participate in the process.

I think by its existence it will have a beneficial effect on anybody who is running for president, because they will be obliged to look over their other shoulder at the center and not simply address the partisan factions that have so much sway in primaries.

If standing at opposite ends of the room, throwing things at each other, was going to produce a consensus on that or a solution for this, I think it's fair to say that it would have been done by now. And it hasn't been done.

So the center is not such a bad place to be. It's actually where American politics, in the end, takes place.