Dick Morris Quotes

The core problem in our society is political correctness.

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either.

We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.

We know that reality was a well known liberal bias.

The media, famously called the marketplace of ideas, is a failed market when a strong interest faces no like interest to generate competing ideas.

If hyperbolic political speech were outlawed, there’d be silence in America.

Trump has taken it to a new level. He is now viewing the media as the 'opposition party,' in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant.

Occasionally, Donald Trump says something that is politically incorrect but which also happens to be true.

I happen to think Donald Trump is crazy, but that's not an economic message.

The critics of Donald Trump are looking for people to blame for his rise. There are many people who are either surprised by his strength or don't like him and want to blame someone to explain why he has been this popular.

Like 90 percent of Ivy League professors, Hollywood celebrities, and late-night TV hosts, the media are also all in for Obama's 'transformative change' and 'social justice.' They've never met a race card slander they didn't like.

The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

If Donald Trump's candidacy has proven anything, it's that the media has no idea what Americans care about.

The PC rebellion is about a reaction against the media academic complex, which tells us what to say - or else.

In a true democracy, there has to be a line between deliberative debate and mob rule. Trump has crossed the line, and much of the media has exacerbated the problem by treating his remarks as entertainment, effectively encouraging his competition to do the same.

Donald Trump has fundamentally realigned American politics. It's time the media acknowledge this and give him the credit he deserves.

On college campuses, in newsrooms, and now in the highest corridors of power, with Barack Obama in the Oval Office, the politically correct Left is wielding its weaponry with the confidence that it can take down any group, anyone, or anything.

Little things had to go wrong for Donald Trump to become president: Comey, emails, all that stuff. Big things did make Trump possible. Big, cultural, political, economic forces opened the door to someone like Trump.

The real reason President Trump was elected, I think, to the extent I know anything about politics at all - and I know very, very little - is that a lot of people really were relieved to see someone stand up to the thought police of the progressive left wing.