Top 100 Mckinnon Quotes
#1. I like watching Kate McKinnon do something - there's a joy in seeing a new move from somebody and going, 'Oh, she can do that.'
Bill Hader
#2. Shayla McKinnon, this mark proves what I already suspected. You are my mate. You are destined to walk beside me, rule with me, share my blood and, through that, my immortality.
Laura Kaye
#3. Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.
Mark McKinnon
#4. Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.
Mark McKinnon
#5. Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's 98 degrees in the desert of Arizona or below freezing in the snow of Wisconsin.
Mark McKinnon
#6. All the collaborators of storytelling, in film and television, have to be partly self-centered because they need to do their work the best they can, and that's what makes them really good at what they do, but then they also have to be a part of the socialist society, for the greater good.
Ray McKinnon
#7. I think I'm a better collaborator, in seeing the bigger picture and trying to just help that, and not be so self-centered in whatever my task is, which is being an actor.
Ray McKinnon
#8. Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel 'em. Just figure out an appropriate forum for the nominee to give an acceptance speech and be done with it.
Mark McKinnon
#9. 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
#10. I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
Kate McKinnon
#12. Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics.
Mark McKinnon
#13. The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.
Mark McKinnon
#14. I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it's covering.
Mark McKinnon
#15. America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.
Mark McKinnon
#16. People who know Paul Ryan say, 'He will be president one day.'
Mark McKinnon
#17. As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.
Mark McKinnon
#18. 'Rectify' is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.
Ray McKinnon
#19. 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
#20. If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face.
Kate McKinnon
#21. It's never popular among young people to be part of the establishment.
Mark McKinnon
#22. If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak.
Mark McKinnon
#23. I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who say, 'It can't happen,' are many of the same people who said we'd never elect an African American.
Mark McKinnon
#24. The Republican Party needs to, first of all, quit electing people in primaries that have prehistoric notions about women's issues.
Mark McKinnon
#25. George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led based on core conviction and strong principles and has believed that time and distance would allow for context.
Mark McKinnon
#26. It doesn't matter if I go on CBS, PBS or Fox. Whoever is interviewing me is going to want to create some conflict in the story, or it's not interesting. That's just the way the news is.
Mark McKinnon
#27. Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.
Mark McKinnon
#28. I've slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and generally recant when I fall short. Because name-calling does nothing to improve understanding or move the political debate forward.
Mark McKinnon
#29. 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
#30. Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.
Mark McKinnon
#31. Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.
Mark McKinnon
#32. 'Deadwood' was just a wonderful opportunity for me. Outside of my own things that I've written, I hadn't had the opportunity to play a character with that amount of depth and range.
Ray McKinnon
#33. I started watching 'SNL' when I was thirteen or so; those were the Molly Shannon/Ana Gasteyer/Cheri Oteri years.
Kate McKinnon
#34. Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.
Mark McKinnon
#35. I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.
Kate McKinnon
#36. Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.
Mark McKinnon
#37. Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.
Mark McKinnon
#38. U.S. foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these day. It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand down on September 11 last year. I am SOLO. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels.
Gary McKinnon
#39. Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
Kate McKinnon
#40. News is virtual now. It is not 24-hour news cycles; it is instant news cycles. It is live. News is live all the time, around the clock.
Mark McKinnon
#41. A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.
Mark McKinnon
#42. 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
#43. I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.
Mark McKinnon
#44. Social Security and Medicare are necessary safety nets, but they are nearing insolvency as fewer pay in, more take out, and more take out more.
Mark McKinnon
#46. Now personally, I think the president should golf every day and never have a press conference. I want the leader of the free world to be as stress-free as possible. And if golf helps fade the psychic heat from the job, by all means tee it up often, Mr. President.
Mark McKinnon
#47. Marco Rubio is interesting because he checks so many boxes when you think about what a Republican nominee needs. He brings Florida, he's young, he's Hispanic, the Tea Party likes him. But that said, he's got issues, actually surprisingly, ironically, with Mexican-American voters.
Mark McKinnon
#48. Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the truly free-form town halls may be over.
Mark McKinnon
#49. Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.
Mark McKinnon
#50. When two roads diverge...take the one that leads to the beach!
Hannah McKinnon
#51. America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.
Mark McKinnon
#52. My one goal when I started was not to actually vomit on TV or run away.
Kate McKinnon
#53. It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.
Mark McKinnon
#55. When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.
Mark McKinnon
#57. A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the United States. And that's the point driven home by Romney's selection of Ryan, who dared to lead when Obama did not.
Mark McKinnon
#58. The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting.
Mark McKinnon
#59. Party switching has all the emotional edges and baggage of divorce.
Mark McKinnon
#60. In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.
Mark McKinnon
#61. As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.
Mark McKinnon
#62. I don't think that the press in 2004 was any more unfair to Bush than they were to Kerry.
Mark McKinnon
#63. A Rick Santorum presidency would be very, very dangerous for America.
Mark McKinnon
#64. Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause du jour in writing, but candidates are foolish to comply. Words matter.
Mark McKinnon
#65. Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.
Mark McKinnon
#66. The world is still changing. Faster than ever. And so should the Republican Party. Or condemn itself to a smaller and smaller base of core supporters and permanent minority status.
Mark McKinnon
#67. A few words about Sarah Palin: She is one of the most fascinating women I have ever met. She crackles with energy like a live electrical wire and on first meeting gets about three inches from your face.
Mark McKinnon
#68. To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.
Mark McKinnon
#69. 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
#70. Obama killed Osama. Yes, President Barack Obama gets to crow about the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Mark McKinnon
#71. To open up new markets and create American jobs, we need to make global bilateral free trade agreements a priority as they were under the Clinton administration.
Mark McKinnon
#72. 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
#73. War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief is called upon to defend the nation.
Mark McKinnon
#74. I knew that governments suppressed antigravity, UFO-related technologies, free energy or what they call zero-point energy. This should not be kept hidden from the public when pensioners cant pay their fuel bills,
Gary McKinnon
#75. For most of my life, I've considered myself a political centrist.
Mark McKinnon
#76. Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.
Mark McKinnon
#77. Drone attacks subvert the rule of law - we become judge, jury, and executioner - at the push of a button.
Mark McKinnon
#78. With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.
Ray McKinnon
#79. As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.
Mark McKinnon
#80. Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.
Mark McKinnon
#81. I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.
Ray McKinnon
#82. If you're a Democrat and 'The New York Times' is calling for your head, you know it's time for an exit strategy.
Mark McKinnon
#83. 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
#84. It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.
Mark McKinnon
#85. When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions.
Mark McKinnon
#86. In Texas money goes further, with one of the lowest costs of living, one of the lightest tax burdens as a percent of income, and one of the lowest debt-per-capita ratios.
Mark McKinnon
#87. Wages, investments, and home values are the three legs of the economic stool for most Americans.
Mark McKinnon
#88. There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.
Mark McKinnon
#89. Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.
Mark McKinnon
#90. The line separating the real from the imaginary is infinitesimally small. Or is it there at all?
Ben McKinnon
#91. Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a union.
Mark McKinnon
#92. Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength - not his weaknesses - to place him immediately on the defensive.
Mark McKinnon
#93. When I'm writing something and I'm really into it, that's all I can think about, and it becomes the most important thing in the world to me, and it may not be that, in reality.
Ray McKinnon
#94. 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
#95. Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and candidates over everything, including the number, the format, the qualifications, and the moderators. And they've become a circus.
Mark McKinnon
#96. I always gravitate towards things that are not beautiful, but broken and weird and fascinating
Kate McKinnon
#97. I think the press are good people; I think they're educated people.
Mark McKinnon
#98. Citizens, you will elect me - I will be your leader.
Kate McKinnon
#99. If you're ever making a television show, don't cast smart actors because they are just a pain in the ass. The moment you start to bullshit them you've lost them, so you have to either know what you're talking about or when you don't talk to them.
Ray McKinnon
#100. Infrastructure spending does not create immediate jobs, and more than half of those jobs will pull from the pool of the already employed.
Mark McKinnon
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