Mary Matalin Quotes (22 Quotes)


    The economy is a huge issue. Peace and prosperity. That is why the president will offer -- even before the Congress comes back likely -- a growth package for investors and consumers and the market.


    I have been describing him as Cheney's Cheney. He does for the vice president what the vice president does for the president.

    No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more.

    What we see and what we all do on cable TV is not what people in the real world want to hear. There's an audience for those kind of books, but there's a much bigger, deeper audience for what I want these books to be - provocative in the sense of thought provoking.


    The average House loss in the mid-term for the president's party is 30 seats, and the president's party on average has lost Senate seats in the last two-thirds of 22 elections.

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

    It's not beyond the realm (of possibilities) that nobody's in trouble for anything, ... One of the possibilities in these things is that everybody is exonerated.

    It's the hardest job in the White House. You've got to really stay in the lane, you've got to stay really focused on the message. ... The press' job is to write something different, and he can't give them what they want. If he is successful at his job, it makes it harder for them to do their job.


    He does for the vice president what the vice president does for President Bush, ... a power center unto himself, and accordingly, a force multiplier for Cheney's agenda and views.

    Cheney's audience is people who care about substance, and when he talks they listen, and the base, who wants to see him fight, and when he fights they follow,

    The vice president was concerned. He felt badly, obviously. On the other hand, he was not careless or incautious or violate any of the (rules). He didn't do anything he wasn't supposed to do.

    He's very inventive about problem solving. He has the infinite and unwavering trust of Dick Cheney, which is no small thing.

    He is to the vice president what the vice president is to the president.


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

    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.

    For our government to go securely forward, the heads of it need to be separated, and he accepts that as part of the job.

    He's a scholar and somewhat of an academic, and has studied our history and America's place in the world, in history, and believes that all the progress of the last century, or a goodly portion of it -- eradication of tyrants and communism and fascism and Hitlerism -- was a direct result of the strength of the United States of America and their willingness to use their strength for good.

    Whoever is sitting in the White House in the winter of 2009 is going to have to deal with this.

    We feel like we're in a good position in this debate ... because the president knows what he thinks, why he thinks the way that he does, what he wants to do in the future, where he wants to lead the nation, and that stands in stark contrast to his opponent.


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