Dick Morris Quotes

It's not like Massachusetts, where they're baptized Democrats.

I do not understand those who divide political life from the point of view of political parties.

I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of flux. I'm not socialist, I know that.

A liberal Republican is a contradiction in terms ... a moderate Republican is a liberal who doesn't like to call himself a liberal.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

I was never a Democrat but there are some Republicans who think I ought to be.

I'm not - I'm not going to define people by labels: who's a real Republican, who's not a real Republican.

Republicans don't vote Republican because of Nancy Pelosi. They vote Republican because they are Republicans.

I am not a Republican apologist.

I have no problem if you want to be a socialist. But for those people who are in the middle, you know, I don't know if you're really welcome in the Democratic Party, and I don't even know who the Republican Party is anymore. I have absolutely no idea.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party.

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to.

The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.

You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

I started out as a Democrat.

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.

Am I a Republican? Yes. Am I a Democrat? Yes. Am I a conservative? Yes. Am I a liberal? Yes.