Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Matalin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American celebrity Mary Matalin.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Mary Matalin

Mary Joe Matalin is an American political consultant well known for her work with the Republican Party. She has served under President Ronald Reagan, was campaign director for George H. W. Bush, was an assistant to President George W. Bush, and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003. Matalin has been chief editor of Threshold Editions, a conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster, since March 2005. She is married to Democratic political consultant James Carville. She appears in the award-winning documentary film Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story and also played herself, opposite her husband, James Carville, John Slattery, and Mary McCormack in the short lived HBO series K Street.

No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.
Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.
He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close. — © Mary Matalin
He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.
I was a comfort factor. I'm not a hustler.
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.
I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.
When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.'
[Donald Trump] is going to start with the regulatory ones, because he wants to grow the economy.
Bill Clinton was giving the Clinton campaign the best advice.
If you’re looking for hope and change, you’ll find a lot of both in the direction of Rome. It’s the best kind of hope because it offers forever and the best kind of change because it happens in your own life.
No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does.
Had Hillary Clinton taken [Bill Clinton's advice], I think she could have mitigated her losses but I still think [Donald] Trump would have won.
The beauty for Trump is that [Paul] Ryan et. al have worked on all this legislation and he is going to be able to hit the ground running.
For those of us who have been disgruntled conservatives, who have watched the last successive tsunami at midterms and such, where Republicans were given majorities in both chambers and did little with it, this [Donald Trump win] was no surprise to us.
You just have to get out of the bubble and you have to quit listening to yourself. People are really hurt. The irony of this is, though, had Ms.[Hillary] Clinton listened to her husband instead of her boss, she might could have stopped this Rust Belt redneck revolt.
"Thank You for Being Late" pinpoints 2007 as the year what he calls the, quote, great acceleration began, ushering in a dizzying and disorienting era of change - technological, economic, environmental. Dealing with that change, the challenge of our time, says Tom Friedman. He's here to explain it right now.
[Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation already.
A good man who did a bad thing.
One out of five voters voted on this, and 70 percent of the issues that people voted on issues and they thought the media was inventing the controversy. It is no like they didn't hold him accountable - the Supreme Court is number one.
This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.
The first thing [Donald Trump] is going to do is roll back the fiat executive orders that were unconstitutional.
In the sense of media saying this about themselves, I drive to my kids' school in upstate New York through rural Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York; [Donald] Trump signs everywhere.
[Van Jones] you should be a racial polemicist. You should be a racial reconciler.
The problem with Keith Ellison's message and what you all are saying - and I - and I respect what you're saying because we have been there - is - and another irony of this campaign - is that Barack Obama always won astronomically on his own, but he has completely devastated the party. He's lost the Senate, the House, 30 governorships, over 900 legislatures.
My theory on education is... get one. — © Mary Matalin
My theory on education is... get one.
Quit demagoguing. It's not true.
Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work.
[Donald Trump] has to have and he said he is going to have a transition element for those states, like in Florida, he's, you know, Republican governors who have put in some form of it. They has to be a transition through it.
When I walk down the boardwalk,people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.
You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.
Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons.
The rednecks. Well, you're not going to get there with climate change and [Vladimir] Putin and all the rest of it.
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