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" If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. "
Karl Rove
Know
Who
Want
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" Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator. "
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Well
Become
Want
" Look, there ought to be politics in politics. "
Karl Rove
Ought
Look
Politics
" 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
" '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 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
" Negative politics have always been around. "
Karl Rove
Been
Always
Around
" I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual. "
Karl Rove
Individual
You
Think
" 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
" 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
" Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian. "
Karl Rove
Well
Born
Presbyterian
" 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
" 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
" In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision. "
Karl Rove
Regret
Decision
Hands
" 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
" Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander. "
Karl Rove
Personal
Republican
Look
" 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. "
Karl Rove
Think
Colleagues
Strong
" You all had something to do with keeping me employed. "
Karl Rove
Had
Something
You
" 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
" It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me. "
Karl Rove
Writing
Write
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
" 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 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
" Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon. "
Karl Rove
Nor
Republican
Republican Party
" The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone. "
Karl Rove
World
Place
Better Place
" In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect. "
Karl Rove
Different
You
Got
" 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
" 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 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
" 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