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Portrait of Dick Morris

Dick Morris

(1947) Entrepreneur United States

104 quotes in 770 categories

Morris warns that Obama’s view of fairness could create reverse incentives that hurt growth, jobs, and upward mobility. He compares some GOP tactics to a massive wave of soldiers, suggesting they try to overwhelm opponents. He also points out that Canada’s higher cancer death rate comes from long waits for treatment, showing how rationing can cost lives.

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Dick Morris is an entrepreneur from the United States, best known for Fleeced.

Quick Facts About Dick Morris

Born: November 28, 1947
Nationality: United States
Profession: Entrepreneur
Notable works: Fleeced
Known for: Bill Clinton Administration cabinet, radio talk show, The Real Charlie Kirk

About Dick Morris

Richard Samuel Morris is an American author, commentator, and former political consultant.

Quotes by Dick Morris

I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.

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I like Bill Clinton.

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No true patriot could be for Ron Paul.

Funny

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Truth is that which cannot be proved false.

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

Election

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If you're going to be a sexual predator, be a Democrat.

Democrat

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

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The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

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Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

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It is from the center that leaders must lead.

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Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

Art

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

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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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No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

Action

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I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has,…

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Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

Country

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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…

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

Money

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Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign…

Campaigns

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The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all…

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I will not subject my wife, family or friends to the sadistic vitriol of yellow journalism. I will not dignify such journalism…

Family

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Bill Clinton's incredibly bold idea was to change the grant to a transaction: we'll give you something, but we demand something back;…

Change

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You cannot cover the 50 million new people Obama seeks to cover without more doctors and nurses. But the administration and even…

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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…

Change

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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,…

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More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you…

Democracy

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President Obama's recommended reduction in the tax deduction for charitable giving reflects his fundamental belief that only the government can or should…

Belief

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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…

Alternative energy

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I felt that what you should do is really take the best from each party's agenda and come to a solution somewhere…

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We in politics are accustomed to seeing reality firsthand and then watching its distant cousin, events as portrayed by the media, unfold…

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Only dramatic cuts in the federal deficit, a rollback of regulations that cripple small and community banks, a cancellation of future tax…

American people

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Legislative action will never bring genuine campaign-finance reform. Consultants will prove endlessly inventive in gaming whatever system the reformers can devise so…

Action

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In the name of short-term stimulus, he [Obama] will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of…

American family

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There is a no-man's land in our politics: on the one hand, bounded by what we know to be true, and on…

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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.…

Bears

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

Angst

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In fighting scandal, the key is not to overreact.

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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…

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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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Anybody else who's gotten the president of the United States elected, tell me you are better than I am at it.

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Dick Morris by topic

Politics (38) Political (23) Taxes (13) President (13) People (11)