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• Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

  Dick Morris

  Cutting, Favors, Increase

  "Bush's latest investor-friendly tax cut". www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2003.

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• The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.

  Dick Morris

  Party, Cutting, Class

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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.

  Dick Morris

  Fighting, Political, Vision

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.179, St. Martin's Press

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• There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

  Dick Morris

  Ideas, Political, Politics

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

  Dick Morris

  Presidential, Political, Vices

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.157, St. Martin's Press

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• The White House will run itself while the president is away. That's why he has to be sure not to be away too much.

  Dick Morris

  Running, White, House

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• In fighting scandal, the key is not to overreact.

  Dick Morris

  Fighting, Keys, Political

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

  Dick Morris

  Political, Important, Negative

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.115, St. Martin's Press

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• It is from the center that leaders must lead.

  Dick Morris

  Leader, Political, Politics

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.99, St. Martin's Press

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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.

  Dick Morris

  Party, Keys, Leader

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.96, St. Martin's Press

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• The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.

  Dick Morris

  Party, Political, Doe

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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.'

  Dick Morris

  Thinking, Light, Political

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.87, St. Martin's Press

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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.

  Dick Morris

  Country, Thinking, Political

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.82, St. Martin's Press

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

  Dick Morris

  Winning, Support, Political

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.71, St. Martin's Press

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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.

  Dick Morris

  Political, Negative, Campaigns

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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.

  Dick Morris

  Military, Issues, Political

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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.

  Dick Morris

  Running, Keys, Political

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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• The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms.

  Dick Morris

  War, Iraq, Events

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• The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect.

  Dick Morris

  New York, Race, Perfect

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• I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.

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• Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

  Dick Morris

  Political, Agendas, Sides

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• Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the UN's going to take over' - well, they're beginning to have a case.

  Dick Morris

  Montana, Agents, Cases

  "Glenn Beck and the Rise of Fox News's Militia Media". truth-out.org. April 9, 2009.

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• We in politics are accustomed to seeing reality firsthand and then watching its distant cousin, events as portrayed by the media, unfold on our televisions. We know that what happened in Congress and what is reported to have taken place are two very different things. But that disjuncture, so familiar to politicians, is new to the viewing public. By seeing war and war coverage juxtaposed nightly on their screens, Americans have learned the crucial lesson: not to trust the news anchors.

  Dick Morris

  Cousin, War, Taken

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• [T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable.

  Dick Morris

  Fighting, Politics, Clinton

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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.

  Dick Morris

  Morning, New York, Reading

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