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" Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally. "
Karl Rove
Serious
Face
Clown
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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? "
Karl Rove
Debt
Eye
Budget
" Negative politics have always been around. "
Karl Rove
Been
Always
Around
" Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator. "
Karl Rove
Well
Become
Want
" The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime. "
Karl Rove
Country
Future
Growth
" 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
Think
Patriot
Like
" At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world. "
Karl Rove
Dealing
Different
Two
" 'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. "
Karl Rove
Constitution
Empathy
View
" 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. "
Karl Rove
Money
Think
Value
" 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. "
Karl Rove
Insult
Become
Mud
" As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. "
Karl Rove
Vote
People
Education
" I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot. "
Karl Rove
People
Crazy
Politics
" We've been probably to some degree too successful. "
Karl Rove
Degree
Too
Been
" For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush. "
Karl Rove
Person
Who
Politics
" Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates. "
Karl Rove
House
Tea
Over
" In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect. "
Karl Rove
Different
You
Got
" I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited period of time. I was grateful that the average tenure of a white house senior aide is 18 to 20 months. I was there for nearly seven years. "
Karl Rove
Grateful
Know
You
" Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal. "
Karl Rove
Culture
Marriage
Society
" 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
People
Hell
Me
" The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else. "
Karl Rove
Politics
Know
You
" You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do. "
Karl Rove
Now
Body
Congress
" My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother. "
Karl Rove
Father
Me
Mother
" You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.' "
Karl Rove
Trust
Me
Great
" It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me. "
Karl Rove
Writing
Write
Me
" If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. "
Karl Rove
Him
You
Want
" I believe in traditional marriage. "
Karl Rove
Believe
I Believe
Marriage
" Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives. "
Karl Rove
Know
Consequences
Kind
" Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon. "
Karl Rove
Nor
Republican
Republican Party
" 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. "
Karl Rove
People
Look
Find
" The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery. "
Karl Rove
Decisions
Growth
Recovery
" Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world. "
Karl Rove
Competition
World
American