Mary Matalin Quotes

• Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work.

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  Careers, Over You, Schedules

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• Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons.

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  Home, Numbers, Politics

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• Learn how to communicate, learn how to speak.

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  Speak, Communicate

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• Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

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  Leadership, History, Retreat

  Mary Matalin, James Carville, Peter Knobler (1995). “All's Fair: "Love, War and Running for President"”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• My theory on education is... get one.

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  Theory

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• No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does.

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  Inspirational, Mother, Thinking

  Mary Matalin (2007). “Letters to My Daughters”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• "Thank You for Being Late" pinpoints 2007 as the year what he calls the, quote, great acceleration began, ushering in a dizzying and disorienting era of change - technological, economic, environmental. Dealing with that change, the challenge of our time, says Tom Friedman. He's here to explain it right now.

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  Years, Challenges, Environmental

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• The problem with Keith Ellison's message and what you all are saying - and I - and I respect what you're saying because we have been there - is - and another irony of this campaign - is that Barack Obama always won astronomically on his own, but he has completely devastated the party. He's lost the Senate, the House, 30 governorships, over 900 legislatures.

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  Party, House, Campaigns

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• Had Hillary Clinton taken [Bill Clinton's advice], I think she could have mitigated her losses but I still think [Donald] Trump would have won.

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  Taken, Loss, Thinking

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• When I walk down the boardwalk,people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.

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  People, House, Boardwalk Empire

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• This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.

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  Cutting, Ears, Politics

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• Quit demagoguing. It's not true.

  Mary Matalin

  Politics, Quitting

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• For those of us who have been disgruntled conservatives, who have watched the last successive tsunami at midterms and such, where Republicans were given majorities in both chambers and did little with it, this [Donald Trump win] was no surprise to us.

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  Winning, Lasts, Majority

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• You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.

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  Regret, Writing, Ideas

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• He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.

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  Glasses, Balls, Looks

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• One out of five voters voted on this, and 70 percent of the issues that people voted on issues and they thought the media was inventing the controversy. It is no like they didn't hold him accountable - the Supreme Court is number one.

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  Media, Numbers, Issues

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• [Donald Trump] is going to start with the regulatory ones, because he wants to grow the economy.

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  Want, Economy, Trump

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• The first thing [Donald Trump] is going to do is roll back the fiat executive orders that were unconstitutional.

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  Order, Firsts, Trump

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• Bill Clinton was giving the Clinton campaign the best advice.

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  Giving, Advice, Campaigns

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• You just have to get out of the bubble and you have to quit listening to yourself. People are really hurt. The irony of this is, though, had Ms.[Hillary] Clinton listened to her husband instead of her boss, she might could have stopped this Rust Belt redneck revolt.

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  Hurt, Husband, Redneck

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• I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.

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  Book, Writing, Promise

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• A good man who did a bad thing.

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  Men, Good Man, Politics

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• If you’re looking for hope and change, you’ll find a lot of both in the direction of Rome. It’s the best kind of hope because it offers forever and the best kind of change because it happens in your own life.

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  Rome, Forever, Kind

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• Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

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  Self, Numbers, People

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• In the sense of media saying this about themselves, I drive to my kids' school in upstate New York through rural Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York; [Donald] Trump signs everywhere.

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  New York, School, Kids

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