Matalin Quotes & Sayings

We read, we learn, we experience, we make adjustments. Then one day we reach the point where all the necessary distances have been set, all the necessary systems have been put in place. That is when time begins to pick up speed. It no longer meets any obstacles, everything is set, time races through our lives, the days pass by in a flash and before we know what is happening we are forty, fifty, sixty — Karl Ove Knausgard

You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger. — Mary Matalin

No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does. — Mary Matalin

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. — Mary Matalin

I was a comfort factor. I'm not a hustler. — Mary Matalin

Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work. — Mary Matalin

Appreciate your abilities and trust your instincts. Just because you haven't done something doesn't mean you can't. — Mary Matalin

A good man who did a bad thing. — Mary Matalin

Learn how to communicate, learn how to speak. — Mary Matalin

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

My theory on education is ... get one. — Mary Matalin

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.
[Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se
Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.] — Juvenal

Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons. — Mary Matalin

If you're looking for hope and change, you'll find a lot of both in the direction of Rome. It's the best kind of hope because it offers forever and the best kind of change because it happens in your own life. — Mary Matalin

Mary Matalin and James Carville have given me more hope when it comes to love and relationships than any romance book or chick flick ever. — Meghan McCain

There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it. — George W. Bush

It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others. — Jack Gantos

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

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands. — Bruce Lee

That's what she said. — Mardi Maxwell

Quit demagoguing. It's not true. — Mary Matalin

This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy. — Mary Matalin

He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass ... They're way, way close. — Mary Matalin

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die. — Mary Matalin

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself. — Mary Matalin