Dick Morris Quotes

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.

I made it clear that I can run a positive campaign and do it better.

We have got to lose the primary in order to win the general.

Hillary Clinton doesn't know how to win.

Often GOP political strategy seems like the human wave theory of the Chinese military translated to politics. Where Beijing uses masses of soldiers to overwhelm their adversaries, the GOP uses huge campaign budgets as a substitute for strategy, thought or issues.

We've got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election.

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

There's a basic law, Klein's second, or third, or fourth law of politics in the TV age, which is warm always beats cold, with the exception of Richard Nixon. The nicer guy usually wins.

Politics at bottom is not all that complicated. It's all about timing.

I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.

There are no techniques in politics.

I know within my organization, within the grassroots of my organization of the Tea Party movement generally, there's going to be a big drive for impeaching Obama. I don't know if that's the right move... We need to play our cards very carefully and beware of the mouse trap that Obama might be trying to set for us.

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

I think Romney's talking himself out of the election, to be honest. I was wondering what was gonna happen when the Republican power structure turned the money on, and then they turned on the money and nothing happened.

Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics.

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

Candidates who went into an election with negatives higher than 30 or 40 points just inevitably lost.... Drive up the opposition's negatives.

Review" is a great word in politics. It will last you almost an entire election cycle if you play it right.

The first thing you've got to do in any kind of election campaign is be flexible.

If you can’t run against a political candidate, run against his campaign manager.

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected