Mark McKinnon Quotes
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Immigration reform almost happened under President George W. Bush. Twice. And it was comprehensive.
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Drone attacks subvert the rule of law - we become judge, jury, and executioner - at the push of a button.
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Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.
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Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.
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Party switching has all the emotional edges and baggage of divorce.
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There's only one way we're going to change our political climate and ensure we establish some respect in our discourse. And that is to show there is a real price to pay for being a disrespectful partisan idiot.
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As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.
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Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.
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I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.
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Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great example. His son's speech was also quite powerful.
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength - not his weaknesses - to place him immediately on the defensive.
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For most of my life, I've considered myself a political centrist.
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Technology has had more of an impact on the presidency and how the presidency communicates than anything.
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Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.
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The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.
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Voters crave authenticity.
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Infrastructure spending does not create immediate jobs, and more than half of those jobs will pull from the pool of the already employed.
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Twitter is not a business. I know its founders would like to think it is. It is, for the most part, a diversion.
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Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.
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In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.
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Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.
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I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer.
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Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.
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America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.