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" Look, there ought to be politics in politics. "
Karl Rove
Ought
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" At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world. "
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" 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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" For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me. "
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Me
" Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal. "
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Marriage
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" Negative politics have always been around. "
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Always
Around
" 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. "
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Decision
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" Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon. "
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" 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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" I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past. "
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Past
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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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" 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? "
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" Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world. "
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" We've been probably to some degree too successful. "
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" The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone. "
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" I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly. "
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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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