Dick Morris Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

  Dick Morris

  Politics, Misguided, Democrat

• Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

  Dick Morris

  Winning, Political, Politics

• 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

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

  Dick Morris

  Political, Vision, Politics

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.84, St. Martin's Press

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

  Dick Morris

  Fighting, Keys, Political

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

  Dick Morris

  Political, Television, Politics

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Dick Morris

  Party, Political, Doe

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Dick Morris

  Political, President, Needs

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.74, St. Martin's Press

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

  Dick Morris

  Political, Politics, Want

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.111, St. Martin's Press

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

  Dick Morris

  Decision, Political, Politics

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.76, St. Martin's Press

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Dick Morris

  Caring, Media, Average

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.117, St. Martin's Press

• The problem: Democrats have to drop their stupid class-warfare rhetoric. With 74 million Americans owning stock in one form or another, anything which helps them can't be derided as a sop to the rich.

  Dick Morris

  Stupid, Class, Warfare

• ...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy

  Dick Morris

  Thinking, Asking, Politics

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