Mary Matalin Quotes

Mary Matalin — American Celebrity born on August 19, 1953,

Mary Joe Matalin is an American political consultant well known for her work with the Republican Party. She has served under President Ronald Reagan, was campaign director for George H.W. Bush, was an assistant to President George W. Bush, and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003. Matalin has been chief editor of Threshold Editions, a conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster, since March 2005. She is married to Democratic political consultant James Carville. She appears in the award-winning documentary film Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story and also played herself, opposite her husband, James Carville, John Slattery, and Mary McCormack in the short lived HBO series K Street... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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

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

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