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" The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone. "
Karl Rove
World
Place
Better Place
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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. "
Karl Rove
Father
Me
Mother
" I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual. "
Karl Rove
Individual
You
Think
" Negative politics have always been around. "
Karl Rove
Been
Always
Around
" 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. "
Karl Rove
Insult
Become
Mud
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains. "
Karl Rove
Approach
He
Ingenious
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Karl Rove
Therapy
Prepare
War
" 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
" 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. "
Karl Rove
Culture
Marriage
Society
" For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush. "
Karl Rove
Person
Who
Politics
" Look, there ought to be politics in politics. "
Karl Rove
Ought
Look
Politics
" 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
" 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.' "
Karl Rove
Trust
Me
Great
" Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator. "
Karl Rove
Well
Become
Want
" 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
" 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
" 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 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
" 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. "
Karl Rove
Him
You
Want
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Karl Rove
People
Look
Find
" Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody. "
Karl Rove
People
Live
Life
" 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
" 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. "
Karl Rove
Decisions
Growth
Recovery
" Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon. "
Karl Rove
Nor
Republican
Republican Party