There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction. Dick Morris More Quotes by Dick Morris More Quotes From Dick Morris More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant. Dick Morris misguideddemocratpolitics Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future. Dick Morris spontaneousgrassrootsspontaneity Any Democrat who squirms on the tax-cut issue in the primaries has no chance ' zero ' to win the nomination. Each will have to take the “pledge” to oppose the Bush tax cuts. Thus, Bush will have succeeded in creating a situation where anyone who can win the nomination can't win the election. Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase. Dick Morris cuttingzerowinning We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden - a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes. Dick Morris prioritiesgovernmentpeople The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I. Dick Morris allianceswallwar The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms. Dick Morris iraqeventswar Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase. Dick Morris increasefavorscutting In fighting scandal, the key is not to overreact. Dick Morris politicalfightingkeys The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief. Dick Morris cuttingpartyclass 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.... It is through incremental change after change, step after step, that a statesman of today can vindicate a bold vision. Dick Morris visionpoliticalfighting The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect. Dick Morris racenew-yorkperfect No true patriot could be for Ron Paul. Dick Morris patriot I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence. Dick Morris innocencedonemay Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events. Dick Morris agendaspresidentyears No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq. Dick Morris gaypridemilitary 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 against it. Dick Morris public-opinionunionsgay Obama has paid and will continue to pay dearly for betting on his stimulus package. Because of it, the Bush recession is becoming the Obama recession much faster than it would have had he adopted a more gradual approach to solving economic problems. By jumping in immediately, as he did, in order to increase government spending and pass eight years of Democratic dreams in one day, he made the public expect a solution. Dick Morris eightjumpingdream You cannot cover the 50 million new people Obama seeks to cover without more doctors and nurses. But the administration and even the Blue Dogs in the House have proposed nothing to add to the supply of medical services even as they plan vastly to increase the demand by covering new people. Dick Morris doctorsdogblue Truth is that which cannot be proved false. Dick Morris truth-is The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady. Dick Morris presidentialpoliticalvices
