MARY MATALIN

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

If you want change, you have to offer change.

Everyone wants a whack at the speech.

Campaigns are not, and should not be, democratic processes. Otherwise nothing would ever get done.

Feminists want to be treated equally until they are.

In a campaign, if the phone rings at 6 o'clock in the morning, it's not good news. Good news does not happen at 6 in the morning.

We didn't call Mr. Clinton a philandering, pot smoking draft-dodger.

You must have a rationale for your candidacy.

You're not trying to win 100 percent of the vote. You're after 50 percent plus one. It doesn't matter if you tick off the other 49 percent.

You've got to control the agenda. You've got to be on the offensive.

You can't stop globalization any more than you can stop computers.

If we always looked to contemporary public opinion we would be a slaveholding British colony today.

I never underestimate the voters… I think that they are smart and I trust them.

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

[Van Jones] you should be a racial polemicist. You should be a racial reconciler.

The rednecks. Well, you're not going to get there with climate change and [Vladimir] Putin and all the rest of it.

[Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation already.

Learn how to communicate, learn how to speak.

[Donald Trump] has to have and he said he is going to have a transition element for those states, like in Florida, he's, you know, Republican governors who have put in some form of it. They has to be a transition through it.