Lee Atwater Quotes

• Perception is reality.

  Lee Atwater

  Philosophy, Reality, Medicine

  10 Copy quote

• I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

  Lee Atwater

  Country, Eye, Ambition

  Life Interview, January 1991.

  10 Copy quote

• I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

  Lee Atwater

  Spiritual, Heart, Soul

  Life Interview, January 1991.

  5 Copy quote

• Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.

  Lee Atwater

  Pot, Come Up, Stirring

  6 Copy quote

• I think I learned pretty early that in the end, its only you. To an extent, youre all alone.

  Lee Atwater

  Thinking, All Alone, Ends

  5 Copy quote

• I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

  Lee Atwater

  Country, Spiritual, Eye

  Life Interview, January 1991.

  6 Copy quote

• Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

  Lee Atwater

  Im Sorry, People, I Am Sorry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  6 Copy quote

• My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

  Lee Atwater

  Humanity, Brotherhood, Taught

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

• My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.

  Lee Atwater

  School, Skills, Childhood

  4 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin