Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go. — Dick Morris 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
The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory. — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
The cost of campaigning has skyrocketed in recent years because of the falloff in TV viewership. With only one-third as many people… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern. — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what… — 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
Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility. — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Often GOP political strategy seems like the human wave theory of the Chinese military translated to politics. Where Beijing uses masses of soldiers to… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Rebut the negative, and the opposing campaign has not merely lost a skirmish, it has suffered almost irreparable damage. An effective rebuttal makes it… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
With a congressional mandate to run the deficit up as high as need be, there is no reason to raise taxes now and risk… — Dick Morris 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. We will… — Dick Morris 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 eight week… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt didn't poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we don't need instincts. But is that a change in… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Anybody else who's gotten the president of the United States elected, tell me you are better than I am at it. — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
The Hispanic population grew by 4.7 percent last year, while blacks expanded by 1.5 percent and whites by a paltry 0.3 percent. Hispanics cast… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
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… — Dick Morris 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 the Blue… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
I think that the reason Clinton chose Gore was that he was an example of what Clinton was like. He was kind of almost… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
