Mary Matalin quotes:

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.

Bill Clinton was giving the Clinton campaign the best advice.

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

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.

In the sense of media saying this about themselves, I drive to my kids' school in upstate New York through rural Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York; [Donald] Trump signs everywhere.

Learn how to communicate, learn how to speak.

[Donald Trump] is going to start with the regulatory ones, because he wants to grow the economy.

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

"Thank You for Being Late" pinpoints 2007 as the year what he calls the, quote, great acceleration began, ushering in a dizzying and disorienting era of change - technological, economic, environmental. Dealing with that change, the challenge of our time, says Tom Friedman. He's here to explain it right now.

One out of five voters voted on this, and 70 percent of the issues that people voted on issues and they thought the media was inventing the controversy. It is no like they didn't hold him accountable - the Supreme Court is number one.

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

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

[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.

Had Hillary Clinton taken [Bill Clinton's advice], I think she could have mitigated her losses but I still think [Donald] Trump would have won.

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.

Quit demagoguing. It's not true.

The beauty for Trump is that [Paul] Ryan et. al have worked on all this legislation and he is going to be able to hit the ground running.

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

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

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

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

The problem with Keith Ellison's message and what you all are saying - and I - and I respect what you're saying because we have been there - is - and another irony of this campaign - is that Barack Obama always won astronomically on his own, but he has completely devastated the party. He's lost the Senate, the House, 30 governorships, over 900 legislatures...

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

A good man who did a bad thing.

For those of us who have been disgruntled conservatives, who have watched the last successive tsunami at midterms and such, where Republicans were given majorities in both chambers and did little with it, this [Donald Trump win] was no surprise to us.

My theory on education is... get one.

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

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

The first thing [Donald Trump] is going to do is roll back the fiat executive orders that were unconstitutional.

What do I tell the kids? What I would tell your kids, I'm a black man in America who went to Yale, who has written books, who served a president and now...

You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.

Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work.

You just have to get out of the bubble and you have to quit listening to yourself. People are really hurt. The irony of this is, though, had Ms.[Hillary] Clinton listened to her husband instead of her boss, she might could have stopped this Rust Belt redneck revolt.