Karl Rove Quotes

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Karl Rove

Profession : Politician

Birth : December 25, 1950

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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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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'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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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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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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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

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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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Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.

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

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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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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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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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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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We've been probably to some degree too successful.

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You all had something to do with keeping me employed.

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

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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.

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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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