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" Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy. "
Karl Rove
House
Winning
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon. "
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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 world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone. "
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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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Great
" 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
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" 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. "
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" 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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Kind
" 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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Society
" Look, there ought to be politics in politics. "
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" Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview. "
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Worldview
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" I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual. "
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Individual
You
Think
" '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. "
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" If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek. "
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" Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian. "
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" In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Negative politics have always been around. "
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