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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Civilization, Together, Heroic

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• Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.

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  Hot And Cold, Names, Sparks

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

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  America, Would Be, Dangerous

  "Santorum Is Dangerous" by Mark McKinnon, www.thedailybeast.com. March 13, 2009.

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

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  Strong, Party, Voice

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

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  Brother, Hero, Emotional

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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.

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  Gun, Hollywood, Republican

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• I'm saying it loud: I'm a Republican who supports gay rights.

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  Gay, Rights, Support

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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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• 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.

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  Girl, Running, Husband

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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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  Artist, Ceo, Businessman

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

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  Ideas, Competition, Should

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

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  Motivational, Home, Go Hard

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