Dick Morris Quotes

Voters don't have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

Nobody who ever runs for President should be the leader of a party.

I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.

Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, if your standard-bearer for the presidency is not doing well, it's gonna reflect on the down-ballot.

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

If you are running for the presidency of the United States, you better have a strong opinion.

The single biggest weakness that politicians have as a group is that they want people to like them.

A President has to do the image stuff that will help him so that he can do the substantive things he wants to do.

When I was elected at age 27 to the New York City Council I immediately became Minority Leader. I was the only Republican.

A man’s got to walk if he is going to be in politics.

I don't have any presidential aspirations. If the millennials want me to do it, I'd do it, though.

When a president was elected with foreign policy experience, it was usually less about his foreign policy experience than other things.

I would love to be president. I just concluded I was not the best person to carry forward the Republican torch.

In 1968, 'Liberty Magazine' had an article about George Wallace in which he stated he would suggest me as a possible vice-presidential candidate, along with other choices such as 'Happy' Chandler and General Curtis LeMay. However, I am not interested in any political office in the United States or anywhere, now or back in 1968.

I see The Rock running in 2020 and being a two-term president. I think he would be great, and I'm joking when I say I think Stephanie McMahon wouldn't be a fine president of the United States. I think she's got the leadership qualities. I see those two as potential candidates, and I see Kane as a congressional leader.

You certainly don't want to market the president as if he or she were a box of breakfast cereal.

When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got to stay interesting.

I want to become prime minister.

Presidential campaign and White House are two aggressively separate things. They still think I'm the weird kid in the corner, so I don't have much power. But I'll definitely do something to help.

I never intended to become an opposition political leader. Perhaps the government wants to raise me up into one.