Mary Matalin
Mary Matalin
Mary Joe Matalinis an American political consultant well known for her work with the Republican Party. She has served under President Ronald Reagan, was campaign director for George H.W. Bush, was an assistant to President George W. Bush, and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003. Matalin has been chief editor of Threshold Editions, a conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster, since March 2005. She is married to Democratic political consultant James Carville. She appears in the award-winning...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth19 August 1953
CityCalumet City, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I was a comfort factor. I'm not a hustler.
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.
He is to the vice president what the vice president is to 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.
It's not beyond the realm (of possibilities) that nobody's in trouble for anything, ... One of the possibilities in these things is that everybody is exonerated.
I didn't know that it existed until I was actually down there, and I'm sure I could find my way back there to this day.
Cheney's audience is people who care about substance, and when he talks they listen, and the base, who wants to see him fight, and when he fights they follow.
For our government to go securely forward, the heads of it need to be separated, and he accepts that as part of the job.
He's not going to hold it against whoever said whatever about him. But it's a good thing not to forget, and it's a good thing to know who your friends are.
My theory on education is... get one.
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.