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" 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
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" Look, there ought to be politics in politics. "
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Look
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" 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. "
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People
Look
Find
" And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air. "
Karl Rove
Air
Even
Jealous
" I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual. "
Karl Rove
Individual
You
Think
" 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. "
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Him
You
Want
" I believe in traditional marriage. "
Karl Rove
Believe
I Believe
Marriage
" Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains. "
Karl Rove
Approach
He
Ingenious
" What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice. "
Karl Rove
Justice
Supreme Court
Empathy
" The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elements of the Tea Party decide to become third party advocates because it will split the conservative vote. "
Karl Rove
Will
Group
Hurt
" Negative politics have always been around. "
Karl Rove
Been
Always
Around
" 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
" It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me. "
Karl Rove
Writing
Write
Me
" 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
" Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon. "
Karl Rove
Nor
Republican
Republican Party
" Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator. "
Karl Rove
Well
Become
Want
" 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
" 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
" Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy. "
Karl Rove
House
Winning
Strategy
" 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. "
Karl Rove
President
Smart
Win
" I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past. "
Karl Rove
Used
Past
In The Past
" 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
" 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, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian. "
Karl Rove
Well
Born
Presbyterian
" 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
" Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview. "
Karl Rove
Democrats
Worldview
Many
" 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. "
Karl Rove
Hatred
Anger
Think
" 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
" In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect. "
Karl Rove
Different
You
Got
" We've been probably to some degree too successful. "
Karl Rove
Degree
Too
Been
" Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. "
Karl Rove
Therapy
Prepare
War