Mark McKinnon Quotes
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The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.
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The Newtown massacre created a tipping point on the gun debate in America.
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In Texas money goes further, with one of the lowest costs of living, one of the lightest tax burdens as a percent of income, and one of the lowest debt-per-capita ratios.
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To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.
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Politics at bottom is not all that complicated. It's all about timing.
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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.
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A few words about Sarah Palin: She is one of the most fascinating women I have ever met. She crackles with energy like a live electrical wire and on first meeting gets about three inches from your face.
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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.
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I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.
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You know, the Tea Party is a - first of all, it is a significant movement, and I think the media and some pundits have tried to write it off as a bunch of cranks or something. But, in fact, it's really a very legitimate and fairly significant swath of voters out there.
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Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.
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A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.
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There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president.
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The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting.
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Wind and solar power are land-intensive, a green sin, but not energy-dense, and affordable only when heavily subsidized. And wind power must be supplemented with hydrocarbons for reliability.
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The Republican Party needs to, first of all, quit electing people in primaries that have prehistoric notions about women's issues.
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To open up new markets and create American jobs, we need to make global bilateral free trade agreements a priority as they were under the Clinton administration.
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It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.
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Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.
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Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline.
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Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on gay rights.
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America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.
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I've slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and generally recant when I fall short. Because name-calling does nothing to improve understanding or move the political debate forward.
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CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.