Mark McKinnon Quotes

America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.

My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.

Democrats love to criticize Republicans on guns, but they are generally mute when it comes to taking on Hollywood or the gaming industry.

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

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

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

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.

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.

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.

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

A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.

A Rick Santorum presidency would be very, very dangerous for America.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.

As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.

As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a union.

Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.

Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.