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" Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains. "
Karl Rove
Approach
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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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Father
Me
Mother
" 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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People
Sound
Right
" If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. "
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Who
Want
" 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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People
Look
Find
" The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone. "
Karl Rove
World
Place
Better Place
" 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
" 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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Now
Body
Congress
" 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
" I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual. "
Karl Rove
Individual
You
Think
" 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
" 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
" Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator. "
Karl Rove
Well
Become
Want
" Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian. "
Karl Rove
Well
Born
Presbyterian
" 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
" 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 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
" 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
" Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview. "
Karl Rove
Democrats
Worldview
Many
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Karl Rove
Hatred
Anger
Think
" 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
" '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
" At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world. "
Karl Rove
Dealing
Different
Two
" 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
" Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon. "
Karl Rove
Nor
Republican
Republican Party
" 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
" 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. "
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My Own
Money
September