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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Loyalty, Emotional, Choices

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Military, Games, Political

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• Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

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  Long, Democracy, World

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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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• 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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  Night, Media, Race

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