Mark McKinnon Quotes

I don't really get into that whole red-blue-conservative-liberal because I can't tell them apart. They all seem inept. So, for me, it's not something I focus on at all. I probably should be more political than I am. I just don't care.

I'm so bored of tribal politics. That's part of the problem. I'm so bored of it. I'm not a tribalist. That's not what turns me on.

There is a disconnect between Arkansas and Washington, D.C. The career politicians in Washington are not listening to people here in Arkansas, and this is the fundamental problem with politics.

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.

I can personally testify that American politics have taken a distinctly downward turn in the space of one mature lifetime.

The field of politics always presents the same struggle. There are the Right and the Left, and in the middle is the Swamp. The Swamp is made up of know-nothings, of them who are without ideas, of them who are always with the majority.

We have seen in Washington the worst kind of partisanship, the worst kind of gridlock. There is nothing wrong with our country. There is much wrong with our politics ….

Jefferson, Madison and Washington could not survive in today’s political environment.

These days everything is discussed in terms of political partisan perspective including the weather—especially the weather.

One of the reasons people feel so alienated from the American political process is in the fights we get in here in Washington, no one's ever talking about them and the challenges they're going through.

You've heard me question whether the partisanship in Washington has made us, as a nation, ungovernable - and, indeed, Democrats are doing their very best to make sure of it.

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians.

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says.

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.