Mary Matalin
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"Mary Joe Matalin" is an American political consultant well known for her work with the Republican Party (United States)/Republican Party. She has served under President Ronald Reagan, was campaign director for George H.W. Bush, was an assistant to President of the United States/President George W. Bush, and counselor to Vice President of the United States/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 documentary film Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story and also played herself, opposite her husband, James Carville, John Slattery, and Mary McCormack in the short lived HBO series K Street (TV series)/K Street.

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Will be disadvantaged in the debate.

You can have sound on one or the other and he found that technically imperfect.

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.

The average House loss in the mid-term for the president's party is 30 seats, and the president's party on average has lost Senate seats in the last two-thirds of 22 elections.

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

We feel like we're in a good position in this debate ... because the president knows what he thinks, why he thinks the way that he does, what he wants to do in the future, where he wants to lead the nation, and that stands in stark contrast to his opponent.

The economy is a huge issue. Peace and prosperity. That is why the president will offer -- even before the Congress comes back likely -- a growth package for investors and consumers and the market.

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.

For our government to go securely forward, the heads of it need to be separated, and he accepts that as part of the job.