"Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a……" — Dick Morris
"Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go."
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53 Quotes by Dick Morris
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The key to running a campaign on the cheap is to avoid spending money on anything other than projecting a…
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Often GOP political strategy seems like the human wave theory of the Chinese military translated to politics. Where Beijing uses…
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The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on…
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Rebut the negative, and the opposing campaign has not merely lost a skirmish, it has suffered almost irreparable damage. An…
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Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.
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Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.
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The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct…
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The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.
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There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.
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A politician can do what he thinks is right, he just has to be sophisticated in how he goes about…
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The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.
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The key to controlling your own political party, so that it does not eat you alive, is to realize that…
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