Dick Morris Quotes (44 Quotes)


    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.

    Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

    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.

    In direct and indirect ways, ... Clinton sent messages to the Saudi monarchy If you want to help me, you'll increase oil production and hold down prices.

    Over the next couple of weeks when we find chemical weapons this guy was amassing, the fact that this war was attacked by the left and so the right was so vindicated, I think, really means that the left is going to have to hang its head for three or four more years.



    If, in addition to that, (Pirro) says 'I'm pro-choice, I'm for affirmative action, I'm for gun control, the only difference is I'll be there and you won't.' How does Hillary oppose that.

    Man, is that guy fortunate Fortunate to be able to be president at a time when he CAN respond without violating his principles.

    But now, in January 1998, the danger was greater -- and the stakes so much higher -- than they had ever been. Over the phone, Dick Morris suggested to the President there was a way out of his current dilemma. Look, Bill, I think the American people will forgive you, ... Why don't you let me take a poll on this We'll see what the mood is out there.

    We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country.

    Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.


    I know, I know, ... Addicts fall off the wagon. This is an addiction just like drugs or alcohol and you just have to recognize it and fight it.

    What was formerly controlled by a small group of people now became accessible to a massive number of people.

    Judith Lieber, designer of expensive and easily recognizable evening bags, has said publicly that Hillary had three or four of her creations. The White House said Mrs. Clinton would disclose the bags. But they do not appear on any of the disclosure forms in the public record.

    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.

    All she has to do is to say 'I'm enough like Hillary and my full-time is better than her part-time.'

    As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

    Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood.

    '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, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.


    If Pirro comes on and says 'Look, I'm pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-affirmative action, anti-crime, tough on terror. The only difference is that I want to be senator and I'll give it my full time...'

    The people who said this storm is going to hurt Bush's presidency are just wrong.

    Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

    I said, 'Well I'm wrong. You can't tell them about it, they'll kill you.' He said nothing ... then I went through the questionnaire and I began to read him each question and read him the results of each question verbatim. And he was silent during virtually the entire process. ... And then I said, 'So you just can't do this.' And he said, 'It just won't fly. It just won't fly.' And I said, 'They're not ready for it,' meaning the voters.

    And then I would raise another question Didn't Hillary jump out of the box opposing this port deal because she knew of her husband's vulnerability and wanted to get out ahead of the story I was talking to a source of mine who's very close to the Clintons about seven or eight months ago and the source said that he's all the time going back and forth to Dubai and getting deeper and deeper into that relationship. She (Hillary) was worried about that and its political impact.

    Throughout Hillary's entire career, it's her husband leading the way, ... With Condi Rice, it's Condi leading the way.

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

    The choice is simple. Either you believe that Hillary did not receive any personal gifts or you believe that she did but isn't telling.

    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.

    The president has such mastery of all of the tools of disaster relief. It's a military effort, Congress appropriates whatever you want, he controls the executive branch, and this is something where Bush can just go ahead and do his thing and all the Democrats can do is sigh.

    In an incredibly striking contrast, Bush voters are united on virtually all the questions that divide the Kerry vote. So, Bush can advance his agenda with impunity while taking aim at Kerry voters who are antagonized by their candidate whenever he has to choose a position. If Kerry can get people to listen and think, Bush is toast.

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

    Hillary was seen wearing one of these gowns, a gold lace Moroccan dress that the king had given to her. None of these appears on the forms.

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

    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.

    (Bush) can get all the money he wants out of Congress 'cause of this disaster, the people will be solidly behind him, the media will cover it like crazy and he's gonna look like Santa Claus.

    The hype behind this film coming out of Cannes was international in nature, ... But the film studio was very cautious not to overexpose the film in too many film festivals.

    Bill and Hillary (my emphasis) are looking at polls that show them (only) 7 or 8 points ahead of Jeanine...

    Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

    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.

    It doesn't take a genius to know that it takes a woman to beat a woman, or a black to beat a black,

    The story is true, ... I'm not negotiating the deal. I'm not brokering it. It's not my deal. But I am trying to raise the level of trust that each has in the other and build a level of trust to help explain the one to the other.

    Is Bill Clinton serving as a lobbyist and public-relations guru to the government of Dubai It sure looks like it.


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