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" I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual. "
Karl Rove
Individual
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" 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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" Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview. "
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" I believe in traditional marriage. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice. "
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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? "
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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. "
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Morning
New York
" 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. "
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Will
Group
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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. "
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Even
Jealous
" 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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Me
Moment
" 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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House
Tea
Over
" If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. "
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" Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer. "
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White
Target
Rules
" Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy. "
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House
Winning
Strategy
" 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 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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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. "
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Become
Mud
" 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. "
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Decisions
Growth
Recovery
" Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon. "
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Nor
Republican
Republican Party
" 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. "
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