I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has,… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
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… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side. — Dick Morris Money Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas… — Dick Morris Agendas Copy Share Image
Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the U.N.'s going to take over'? Well, they're beginning… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our… — Dick Morris Country Copy Share Image
Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork… — Dick Morris Communication Copy Share Image
President Obama's recommended reduction in the tax deduction for charitable giving reflects his fundamental belief that only the government can or should… — Dick Morris Belief Copy Share Image
A politician can do what he thinks is right, he just has to be sophisticated in how he goes about it. Those… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has fatally undermined our currency, our solvency, our financial stability, and - ultimately - our economy all to spend money… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton's incredibly bold idea was to change the grant to a transaction: we'll give you something, but we demand something back;… — Dick Morris Change Copy Share Image
You cannot cover the 50 million new people Obama seeks to cover without more doctors and nurses. But the administration and even… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984,… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you… — Dick Morris Democracy Copy Share Image
Growth demands investment, and investment demands stability. So the more Obama stirs the pot with his proposals and potential changes, the more… — Dick Morris Change Copy Share Image
Obama does not believe in individual upward mobility. He would penalize it, tax it, regulate it, inveigh against it and disincentivize it.… — Dick Morris Bears Copy Share Image
I felt that what you should do is really take the best from each party's agenda and come to a solution somewhere… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
We in politics are accustomed to seeing reality firsthand and then watching its distant cousin, events as portrayed by the media, unfold… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Only dramatic cuts in the federal deficit, a rollback of regulations that cripple small and community banks, a cancellation of future tax… — Dick Morris American people Copy Share Image
Legislative action will never bring genuine campaign-finance reform. Consultants will prove endlessly inventive in gaming whatever system the reformers can devise so… — Dick Morris Action Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan cut taxes to raise the deficit to stop liberals in future years from increasing spending. Obama will raise spending to… — Dick Morris Alternative energy Copy Share Image
Any Democrat who squirms on the tax-cut issue in the primaries has no chance ' zero ' to win the nomination. Each… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus… — Dick Morris Bailouts Copy Share Image
The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television. — Dick Morris Ability Copy Share Image
Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors… — Dick Morris Democracy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady. — Dick Morris First lady Copy Share Image
Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern. — Dick Morris Democracy Copy Share Image
... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote. — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
The White House will run itself while the president is away. That's why he has to be sure not to be away… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
I will not subject my wife, family or friends to the sadistic vitriol of yellow journalism. I will not dignify such journalism… — Dick Morris Family Copy Share Image
The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
The stagnation of the Japanese economy in the past 20 years is eloquent testimony to the fact that government usually gets it… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed… — Dick Morris Antithesis Copy Share Image
In Canada the cancer death rate is 16% higher than in the U.S. because of rationing of medical care. It takes an… — Dick Morris Canada Copy Share Image
Lincoln and Clinton had a lot in common in the way they were elected: In both cases, they were dark horses. In… — Dick Morris Dark Copy Share Image