Top 138 Quotes & Sayings by Mark McKinnon - Page 3

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

The Republican Party needs to, first of all, quit electing people in primaries that have prehistoric notions about women's issues.

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

Party switching has all the emotional edges and baggage of divorce.

If you're a Democrat and 'The New York Times' is calling for your head, you know it's time for an exit strategy.

Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.

Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.

It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.

It's never popular among young people to be part of the establishment.

George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.

Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the truly free-form town halls may be over.

The No Child Left Behind Act will be one of President Bush's enduring legacies. And it was engineered and inaugurated with a truly bipartisan coalition in Congress. Accountability, standards, and truly measuring student performance just makes sense. The only real debate about the law was and is whether or not it was adequately funded.

Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline.

If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak.

When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.

The GOP cannot expect to win the presidency in the future by simply relying on running up big numbers with white voters.

Go Hard or Go Home, but never go home hard!

At some point he has to show that he has a vision of a better way. He can't just say 'The future is bleak, follow me.' Because no one will.