165 Quotes by Mark McKinnon

I took a lot of heat from Republicans when I stepped out of John McCain's campaign after the 2008 primaries. I still supported McCain, and voted for him, but I just didn't want to be the tip of the spear attacking Obama.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

Life inside the Beltway bubble dulls your thinking.

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.

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.

It's never popular among young people to be part of the establishment.

I don't think that the press in 2004 was any more unfair to Bush than they were to Kerry.

A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.

A Rick Santorum presidency would be very, very dangerous for America.