Ken Mehlman
Ken Mehlman
Kenneth Brian "Ken" Mehlmanis an American businessman, attorney, and political figure. He serves as a Member and Global Head of Public Affairs at global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, helping assess and improve the companies in which KKR invests by engaging stakeholders & leveraging geopolitical & public policy trends. Mehlman also oversees the firm’s responsible investment efforts, leading the firm’s Environmental Social Governance programs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 August 1966
CountryUnited States of America
We are at a very historic moment in terms of the party, but also our community.
The public trust is more important than party.
There is no question we're in difficult political times, ... Meet the Press.
What's been extraordinary about this president, Tim, and what's unique about this president is not that the administration is sputtering but rather everything he's taken on he's been able to accomplish.
So what we have is a president that has brought this issue before the American people. We now understand that we can't wait. We understand every year we wait it gets $600 billion worse.
I don't know the answer to that question. I don't think it matters to the fundamental question here because at bottom, this president believes in non-discrimination.
Maybe he was responding to James Carville, who warned the Democrats that the public wanted reform. The Democrats seem stuck in concrete.
They're not running for president to safeguard America's homeland and bring peace throughout the world. They're not running to grow jobs and improve the economy. They're not running to reform education or to provide health care for America's seniors. They're not running to take America forward. The singular rationale for each of their candidacies is to beat our president.
You tell me who's taking what should be a moment of national unity and trying to score politically.
What's interesting is you could have showed me an article about 20 years ago in The Washington Post that predicted that Ronald Reagan was a lame duck.
We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.
We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.
Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans.
Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.