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The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

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Dick Morris
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 28
Author
Entrepreneur
Journalist
New York City
New York
Richard S. Morris
Richard Samuel Morris
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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.
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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 president who 'will disregard the polls and just lead,' ask for the political equivalent of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade.'
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.
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Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.
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I think that really, when we look at this whole process, we can come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as a moderate Democrat, that fundamentally all Democrats are Democrats.
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Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.
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The cost of campaigning has skyrocketed in recent years because of the falloff in TV viewership. With only one-third as many people watching TV as did 20 years ago, politicians have responded by buying three times as many ads, driving the cost of campaigning to levels which only favored candidates can afford.
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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.
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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.
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