Mark McKinnon famous quotes

America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Religious #Commitment #America

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Successful #Nuance #Debate

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.
-- Mark McKinnon

#The End Of The Day #President #Levels

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Technology #Media #People

A Rick Santorum presidency would be very, very dangerous for America.
-- Mark McKinnon

#America #Would Be #Dangerous

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.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Names #Sparks #Hot

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.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Civilization #Together #Heroic

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Winning #Past #Campaigns

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Democracy #Process #Messy

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.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Messages #Firsts #Linkedin

America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.
-- Mark McKinnon

#America #Ends #Medicare

Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.
-- Mark McKinnon

#People #Policy #Disagree

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

#Winning #Perception #Voters

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

#Government #Taxation #Regulation

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

#Thinking #Organization #Special

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

#Strong #Party #Voice

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

#Brother #Hero #Emotional

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.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Loyalty #Emotional #Choices

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Hard Work #Wings #Preparation

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.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Artist #Ceo #Businessman

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

#Government #Texas #Debt

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

#Ideas #Competition #Congress

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

#Gun #Hollywood #Republican

I'm saying it loud: I'm a Republican who supports gay rights.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Gay #Rights #Support

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

#Party #Liberty #Legacy

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.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Suicide #Marine #Presidential

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.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Vision #Way #Republican

Go Hard or Go Home, but never go home hard!
-- Mark McKinnon

#Motivational #Home #Go Hard

As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Republican #Clinton #Expected