Dick Morris Quotes

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We're going to win by a landslide. It will be the biggest surprise in recent American political history. It will rekindle the whole question on why the media played this race as a nailbiter where in fact Romney's going to win by quite a bit.

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Each morning we sat reading our copy of the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and ruminated on their prophecies of doom and quagmire. Then we looked up to see, on television, correspondents actually embedded with our troops, reporting quick advances, one- sided firefights, melting opposition and, finally, welcoming crowds.

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Often GOP political strategy seems like the human wave theory of the Chinese military translated to politics. Where Beijing uses masses of soldiers to overwhelm their adversaries, the GOP uses huge campaign budgets as a substitute for strategy, thought or issues.

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Particularly if the Republicans nominate a more moderate candidate such as Mitt Romney, Obama will not be able to rely on partisan animosity to succeed where job approval has failed. And, given all that, he might not even run.

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There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.

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The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

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The first primary, the one against Bachmann, would be held in Iowa, where Bachmann is probably gonna win, and Perry could be competitive.

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The key to running a campaign on the cheap is to avoid spending money on anything other than projecting a message.

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Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

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Every donation received is a potential negative ad. Vetting money is just as important as raising it.

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No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

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The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

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The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

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Mike Gallagher: Hey Dick Morris, you sound intrigued by a Donald Trump candidacy.
Dick Morris: Oh I am. I am. I take him very seriously. I think he's going to run, I think he's got a good shot at the nomination, and I think if he were nominated, he could beat Obama.

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The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

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A politician can do what he thinks is right, he just has to be sophisticated in how he goes about it. Those who seek a president who 'will disregard the polls and just lead,' ask for the political equivalent of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade.'

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Dick Morris: Look, I believe that — and I've said this before and everybody either gives a sigh of a relief or a cynical laugh — there is no chance that Obama will get re-elected.
Sean Hannity: I don't agree that's true. I think it's possible.
Dick Morris: Zilch, none, zip, nada.

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It should come as no surprise that President Obama will raise taxes if he is reelected. But here's the shocker: he will invite the United Nations to tax Americans directly. And the proceeds would go directly to the Third World.

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Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

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The key to controlling your own political party, so that it does not eat you alive, is to realize that while Democratic and Republican leaders differ sharply, their voters do not.

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Rebut the negative, and the opposing campaign has not merely lost a skirmish, it has suffered almost irreparable damage. An effective rebuttal makes it hard for the campaign whose ad is destroyed to be believed about anything ever again.

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Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

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Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.

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Where he's wrong is that we went into Iraq at the invitation of the government, not as an invasion.

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Like the battleships of old, omnibus programs present too tempting a target, too easily destroyed by a single attack, to make it through a fight.... It is through incremental change after change, step after step, that a statesman of today can vindicate a bold vision.

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