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" 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. "

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" 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

" 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. "

" What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice. "

" Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world. "

" In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect. "

" 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. "

" Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody. "

" Look, there ought to be politics in politics. "

" I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual. "

" I believe in traditional marriage. "

" 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

Look

Own

" I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Mother

" 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. "

Karl Rove

Said

Moment

" 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. "

" Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me. "

" And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me. "

Karl Rove

Writing

Write

" 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. "

" The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone. "

" I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot. "

" Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains. "

Karl Rove

Approach

Ingenious