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As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.

From Mark McKinnon

Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.

From Mark McKinnon

Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.

From Mark McKinnon

I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.

From Mark McKinnon

Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a union.

From Mark McKinnon

Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics.

From Mark McKinnon

If you're running for office, it's tough to be an incumbent. It's tough to run out of Washington. It's better to be an outsider. And Establishment support doesn't help; it more likely hurts.

From Mark McKinnon

Politics at bottom is not all that complicated. It's all about timing.

From Mark McKinnon

People who know Paul Ryan say, 'He will be president one day.'

From Mark McKinnon

The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.

From Mark McKinnon

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