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• The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the "I'll raise your taxes" reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election.

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  Running, Men, Years

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• I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.

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

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  Political, Vision, Politics

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

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• Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

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  Communication, Thinking, Views

  "Profiting from politics" by Elizabeth Wasserman, www.cnn.com. November 19, 1999.

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• Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

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  Gay, Public Opinion, Unions

  "Bush's Weapon Against Dean" by Dick Morris, www.foxnews.com. November 5, 2003.

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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.

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  Political, Agendas, Sides

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• Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility.

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  Jobs, Views, Growth

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• Growth demands investment, and investment demands stability. So the more Obama stirs the pot with his proposals and potential changes, the more he retards exactly the investment he needs to get the economy moving again.

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  Moving, Growth, Needs

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• President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation. He's not just raising the top rate to 39.6 percent; he's also disallowing about one-third of top earner's deductions, whether for state and local taxes, charitable contributions or mortgage interest. This is an effective hike in their taxes by an average of about 20 percent.

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  War, Average, President

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• Obama does not believe in individual upward mobility. He would penalize it, tax it, regulate it, inveigh against it and disincentivize it. We will be like salmon swimming upstream to mate. We will overcome the currents, the waterfall, the rocks and the predators, and will grapple our way up the stream. Then, at the top of the waterfall will stand Obama the Bear, waiting to scoop us up and have us for dinner. The taxman cometh.

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  Believe, Swimming, Rocks

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• The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax cut, it will be a national welfare program, guaranteeing a majority of American households an annual check to 'refund' taxes they never paid. And it will eliminate the need for about 20% of American households to pay income taxes, lifting the proportion that need not do so to a majority of the voting population.

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  Cutting, Welfare Programs, Voting

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• It is true that the top quintile is getting richer while the bottom is getting poorer, but the bottom is not the same people. There is, fortunately, a constant churning at the bottom as new immigrants move in and those who used to be on the bottom begin their long, thrilling upward climb to the American dream.

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  Dream, Moving, Long

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• Barack Obama has fatally undermined our currency, our solvency, our financial stability, and - ultimately - our economy all to spend money that has had no economic effect!

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  Financial, Economic, Economy

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• In Canada the cancer death rate is 16% higher than in the U.S. because of rationing of medical care. It takes an eight week wait to get radiation therapy for cancer.

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  Cancer, Eight, Waiting

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• Obama has paid and will continue to pay dearly for betting on his stimulus package. Because of it, the Bush recession is becoming the Obama recession much faster than it would have had he adopted a more gradual approach to solving economic problems. By jumping in immediately, as he did, in order to increase government spending and pass eight years of Democratic dreams in one day, he made the public expect a solution.

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  Dream, Jumping, Eight

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• How, voters will ask, can we cover 50 million new people without any new doctors or nurses? The answer is to ration health care, with the U.S. government deciding whom will get hip and knee replacements, heart bypass surgery and all manner of medical treatments. And what does rationing mean? It means that the elderly will be denied care, which they can now get whenever they want it.

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  Heart, Mean, Doctors

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• Ronald Reagan cut taxes to raise the deficit to stop liberals in future years from increasing spending. Obama will raise spending to raise the deficit to stop conservatives in future years from cutting taxes. As he funds every liberal dream - from alternative energy production to infrastructure renovation to more federal revenue sharing - he will force a massive expansion in the size of government for a decade to come.

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  Dream, Cutting, Government

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• The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.

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  Wall, War, Alliances

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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.

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  Montana, Agents, Cases

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

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

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  Ideas, Political, Politics

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

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  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.

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  Running, White, House

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

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  Fighting, Keys, Political

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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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  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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