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Political Quotes by Dick Morris
- The key to running a campaign on the cheap is to avoid spending money on anything other than projecting a message.
- 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…
- The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.
- 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…
- Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.
- Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.
- 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…
- The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.
- Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.
- There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.
- 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…
- The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.
- 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…
- It is from the center that leaders must lead.
- Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.
- Every donation received is a potential negative ad. Vetting money is just as important as raising it.
- 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…
- In fighting scandal, the key is not to overreact.
- 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.
- The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.
- There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.
- 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....…
- 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,…
More Political Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle