Mary Matalin Quotations

What he did was not an irrational thing. This was a very close friend this happened to. Everyone was shaken up about it. When I spoke to him, it was all about Harry, worrying about him.

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

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

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

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.

He's almost a principal ... not a staff guy,

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.

He was strategic in thinking that the way to respond to this problem was to take out the reasons and what sustained the enemy.

He is relentlessly even-keeled and is going to do what he's going to do. He's the furthest thing from a whiner.

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

I was a comfort factor. I'm not a hustler.

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

You can have sound on one or the other and he found that technically imperfect.

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.

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.

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.

Scooter is the most methodical, detail-oriented and comprehensive worker of anybody I've ever worked with in my life.

an individual of great experience and stature, who I will honored to have playing an important role on my staff.

It's not unfair to say he doesn't forget, but that doesn't necessarily translate into holding a grudge.

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.

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.

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.

I didn't know that it existed until I was actually down there, and I'm sure I could find my way back there to this day.

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.

He's not going to hold it against whoever said whatever about him. But it's a good thing not to forget, and it's a good thing to know who your friends are.

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

My theory on education is... get one.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

A good man who did a bad thing.

Quit demagoguing. It's not true.

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

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

Learn how to communicate, learn how to speak.

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

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

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.