Mark McKinnon Quotes

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• 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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  The End Of The Day, President, Levels

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

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  Technology, Media, People

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

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  Religious, Commitment, America

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• 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.

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  War, Winning, Tariffs

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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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  Successful, Nuance, Debate

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

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  Government, Texas, Debt

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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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  Law, America, Self

  "America’s Artists Are the Ultimate Entrepreneurs: Let’s Give Them a Hand" by Mark McKinnon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Vision, Way, Republican

  "Romney not into 'vision thing'" by Reid J. Epstein and Ginger Gibson, www.politico.com. May 27, 2012.

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

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  Republican, Clinton, Expected

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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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  Party, Liberty, Legacy

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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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  Gay, Care, Glad

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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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  Powerful, Vision, Tears

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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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  Hard Work, Wings, Preparation

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• Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.

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  People, Policy, Reasonable

  "Mark McKinnon: An Unfair Attack on Mitt Romney's NAACP Speech" by Mark McKinnon, www.thedailybeast.com. July 14, 2012.

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

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  Winning, Perception, Voters

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

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  Government, Taxation, Regulation

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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.

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  Thinking, Organization, Special

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

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  America, Ends, Medicare

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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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  Fighting, Careers, Reform

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

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  Negativity

  "The Best Reason to Support Obama: Mark McKinnon" by, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2008.

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• Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

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  Hypocrisy, Letters, Scarlet

  "What Really Did Tom Daschle In". www.thedailybeast.com. February 3, 2009.

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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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  Messages, Firsts, Linkedin

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• A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

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  Democracy, Process, Messy

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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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  Winning, Past, Campaigns

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• Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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  Suicide, Marine, Hostage Crisis

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