46 Quotes by Mary Matalin

What he did was not an irrational thing. This was a very close friend this happened to. Everyone was shaken up about it. When I spoke to him, it was all about Harry, worrying about him.

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

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

I have been describing him as Cheney's Cheney. He does for the vice president what the vice president does for the president.

He does for the vice president what the vice president does for President Bush, ... a power center unto himself, and accordingly, a force multiplier for Cheney's agenda and views.

He's almost a principal ... not a staff guy,

He's a scholar and somewhat of an academic, and has studied our history and America's place in the world, in history, and believes that all the progress of the last century, or a goodly portion of it -- eradication of tyrants and communism and fascism and Hitlerism -- was a direct result of the strength of the United States of America and their willingness to use their strength for good.

He was strategic in thinking that the way to respond to this problem was to take out the reasons and what sustained the enemy.

He is relentlessly even-keeled and is going to do what he's going to do. He's the furthest thing from a whiner.