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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. "

Karl Rove

Now

Body

Congress

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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. "

Karl Rove

Said

Moment

" I believe in traditional marriage. "

" If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. "

" We've been probably to some degree too successful. "

" What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice. "

" Look, there ought to be politics in politics. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush. "

" 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

Great

" 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

Own

" 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. "

" At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world. "

" 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. "

" I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot. "

" 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. "

" And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air. "

" Negative politics have always been around. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual. "

" 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. "

" I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly. "

" 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. "

Karl Rove

Think

Patriot

" 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. "