Karl Rove quotes - page 2

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically. (Karl Rove)
If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. View quote
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Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as "deficits as far as the eye can see." But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk? View quote
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I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes. View quote
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Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon. View quote
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And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air. View quote
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Negative politics have always been around. View quote
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual. View quote
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect. View quote
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Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody. View quote
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Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th, 2009 when a television commentator named Rick Santelli stood up and said what the hell are we doing bailing out people who couldn't afford a mortgage by taking money from people like me who are prudent? (Karl Rove)
If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek. View quote
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I believe in traditional marriage. View quote
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot. View quote
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence. View quote
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Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander. View quote
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I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing. View quote
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Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals. View quote
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We've been probably to some degree too successful. View quote
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Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy. View quote
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about. (Karl Rove)
Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian. View quote
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I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things. View quote
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I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media. View quote
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And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred. View quote
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