Lee Atwater Quotes

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“The '80s were about acquiring — acquiring wealth, power, prestige. I know. 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. 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

Source: Interview in Life (January 1991)

Truth , Family , Feeling , Soul

“[T]here is a big part of me that is anti-intellectual.”

Lee Atwater

Source: [Brady, John, I'm Still Lee Atwater, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/bckgrnd/atwater.htm, www.washingtonpost.com, 7 November 2017]

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