136 Quotes by Dick Morris

The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the “I’ll raise your taxes” reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election.

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.

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.

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.

Obama’s perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility.

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.

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today’s voters in thirty seconds.

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 for a ‘permanent campaign’ to sell a president’s policies all the more crucial.

The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one’s own.