Lee Atwater Quotes
Perception is reality.
He is one of the later people to express this idea but at the time, most political pundits and politicians were unaware of most of the others. See related quotes.
Lee Atwater, quoted in Time, October 3, 1982
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See Eddie Bernice Johnson {605259} & Barbara Tuchman {626144} for similar views and John Stuart Mill {607508} for an earlier expression. See {638618} for a Sociology principle that is similar. The earliest expression of the idea can be found in the Bhagavad Gita {594723}
Hitti was describing the Arabs but the principle would apply to almost any people. See {585931} for a political expression of this principle. Also {594723}, {607508} and {605259}.
See Otis Singletary {585931} for a different expression of the same idea and John Stuart Mill {607508} for the earlier expression. The earliest expression of the idea can be found in the Bhagavad Gita {594723}
Later American politicians expounded the same view. See Otis Singletary {585931} and Eddie Bernice Johnson {605259}. The earliest expression of the idea can be found in the Bhagavad Gita {594723}
See Eddie Bernice Johnson {605259} for a similar view and John Stuart Mill {607508} for an earlier expression. Otis Singletary for a contemporary one {585931} The earliest expression of the idea can be found in the Bhagavad Gita {594723}
See Eddie Bernice Johnson {605259} & Otis Singletary {585931} for similar views and John Stuart Mill {607508} for an earlier expression. The earliest expression of the idea can be found in the Bhagavad Gita {594723}
This important political concept has a long history. See also {605259}, {626144}, {607508}, and {585931}
This had been a principle of Sociology since. It is conceptually similar to political quotations such as {585931}.
See {585931} for a stark view of the importance of perception.
Harvey LeRoy "Lee" Atwater was an American political consultant and strategist for the Republican Party. He was an adviser to US presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and chairman of the Republican National Committee. Atwater aroused controversy through his aggressive campaign tactics, especially the Southern strategy.
