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" In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect. "
Karl Rove
Different
You
Got
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" 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
" 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
" '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
" If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. "
Karl Rove
Know
Who
Want
" 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
" 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 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Karl Rove
White
Target
Rules
" 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
Me
Moment
" 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
" Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian. "
Karl Rove
Well
Born
Presbyterian
" 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? "
Karl Rove
Debt
Eye
Budget
" 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
" 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
" 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
" At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world. "
Karl Rove
Dealing
Different
Two
" It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me. "
Karl Rove
Writing
Write
Me
" 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. "
Karl Rove
You
Morning
New York
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy. "
Karl Rove
House
Winning
Strategy
" 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
" 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
" 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 believe in traditional marriage. "
Karl Rove
Believe
I Believe
Marriage
" Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator. "
Karl Rove
Well
Become
Want
" We've been probably to some degree too successful. "
Karl Rove
Degree
Too
Been