Mary Matalin Quotes

#1. Quit demagoguing. It's not true.

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#2. A good man who did a bad thing.

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#3. Learn how to communicate, learn how to speak.

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

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

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

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

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

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#10. Appreciate your abilities and trust your instincts. Just because you haven't done something doesn't mean you can't.

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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.'

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#16. My theory on education is ... get one.

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

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

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