Lee Atwater famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, its only you. To an extent, youre all alone.
-- Lee Atwater

#Thinking #All Alone #Ends
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.
-- Lee Atwater

#Humanity #Brotherhood #Taught
Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.
-- Lee Atwater

#Pot #Come Up
Perception is reality.
-- Lee Atwater

#Philosophy #Reality #Medicine
Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.
-- Lee Atwater

#Im Sorry #People #I Am Sorry
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
-- Lee Atwater

#Country #Ambition #Eye
I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.
-- Lee Atwater

#Spiritual #Heart #Soul
I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.
-- Lee Atwater

#Country #Eye #Ambition
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.
-- Lee Atwater

#School #Skills #Childhood

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
I think I learned pretty early that in the end, its only you. To an extent, youre all alone.
It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go
There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
I only bleed when I'm all alone
We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.
Daei's all alone here, with four Chelsea defenders for company.

Lee Atwater famous quotes

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