Mark McKinnon quotes

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party. (Mark McKinnon)
Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.
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Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.
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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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Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.
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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.
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As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.
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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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It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.
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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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I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations, so I think those news organizations have a certain bias toward their own readers. Yeah, I think they are a special interest. Of course they are. (Mark McKinnon)
There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.
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Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.
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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 spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.
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Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.
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Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.
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It's just madness. First email. Then instant message. Then MySpace. Then Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Then Twitter. It's not enough anymore to 'Just do it.' Now we have to tell everyone we are doing it, when we are doing it, where we are doing it and why we are doing it.
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A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.
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Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.
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Democrats love to criticize Republicans on guns, but they are generally mute when it comes to taking on Hollywood or the gaming industry. (Mark McKinnon)
My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.
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Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks, and established amnesty for 3 million undocumented workers.
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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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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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