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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. "
Karl Rove
People
Crazy
Politics
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White
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Therapy
Prepare
War
" We've been probably to some degree too successful. "
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Degree
Too
Been
" 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. "
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You
Morning
New York
" 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. "
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Said
Me
Moment
" Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview. "
Karl Rove
Democrats
Worldview
Many
" 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
Like
Own
" 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
" Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy. "
Karl Rove
House
Winning
Strategy
" '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
" 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
" I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S. senator. I personally contributed my own money. "
Karl Rove
My Own
Money
September
" Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody. "
Karl Rove
People
Live
Life
" 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. "
Karl Rove
People
Sound
Right
" I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly. "
Karl Rove
Because
Someone
Stage
" Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian. "
Karl Rove
Well
Born
Presbyterian
" Negative politics have always been around. "
Karl Rove
Been
Always
Around
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator. "
Karl Rove
Well
Become
Want
" You all had something to do with keeping me employed. "
Karl Rove
Had
Something
You
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual. "
Karl Rove
Individual
You
Think