Karl Rove Quotes

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• We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

  Karl Rove

  Reality, Creating, Actors

  "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush". Interview with Ron Suskind, www.nytimes.com. October 17, 2004.

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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.

  Karl Rove

  Education, Hymns, People

  The New Yorker, February 19, 2001.

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• All politicians operate within an Orwellian nimbus where words don't mean what they normally mean, but Rovism posits that there is no objective, verifiable reality at all. Reality is what you say it is.

  Karl Rove

  Mean, Reality, Politician

  "Karl Rove: America's Mullah" by Neal Gabler, articles.latimes.com. October 24, 2004.

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• In chaos, there is opportunity.

  Karl Rove

  Opportunity, Chaos

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• 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

  Race, Style, Elements

  "Karl Rove Calls Out Stupid Journalists Who Believed the Worst About Him". www.newsbusters.org. March 8, 2010.

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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.

  Karl Rove

  Hate, Anger, Thinking

  "NewsBusters Interview: Karl Rove Slams Lefty Blogosphere, Talks Media, Praises iPhone". Interview with Matthew Sheffield, www.newsbusters.org. March 21, 2008.

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• The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

  Karl Rove

  People, Strategy, Obvious

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• But perhaps the most important difference between conservatives and liberals can be found in the area of national security. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and 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. In the wake of 9/11, conservatives believed it was time to unleash the might and power of the United States military against the Taliban.

  Karl Rove

  Military, War, Differences

  Karl Rove's remarks at the New York Conservative Party, www.washingtonpost.com. June 22, 2006.

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• The government that can take everything from somebody can take everything from everybody. And there ought to be a limit.

  Karl Rove

  Government, Limits, Ought

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In America we believe there ought to be limits on government.

  Karl Rove

  Believe, Government, America

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

  Karl Rove

  Math, Different, May

  "Political Power Player Rove Leaves the Game". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris and Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. August 13, 2007.

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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.

  Karl Rove

  Recovery, Usa, Decision

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• Now is the time to be bold. It is easy when the wind is at your back. But the real test is now when the wind is in our face. That's when we find out if we are tough enough. Inspired enough, committed enough.

  Karl Rove

  Motivational, Success, Real

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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.

  Karl Rove

  Looks, Republican, Notorious

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• One of the great things about America is that we have the freedom to worship or not worship as we please. It doesn't matter whether you're a Christian, Jew, Muslim. It doesn't matter whether you're an evangelical or a Catholic or a moderate Jew. You're entitled to worship - or an agnostic or atheist.

  Karl Rove

  Christian, Atheist, America

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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.

  Karl Rove

  Views, Justice, Empathy

  The Rachel Maddow Show, www.msnbc.com. May 28, 2009.

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• The president has an obligation to serve all the people of America.

  Karl Rove

  America, People, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It's time to put America at the front of all of our agendas and to find ways to work together on common ground.

  Karl Rove

  America, Working Together, Agendas

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

  Karl Rove

  African American, Politics, Republican

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• Every presidential spouse is going to be subjected to scrutiny.

  Karl Rove

  Presidential, Scrutiny, Spouse

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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

  Karl Rove

  Party, Two, Views

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• 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, Team, Growth

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• Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

  Karl Rove

  Jobs, Loss, Usa

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• 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

  Looks, Amusement, Towns

  Interview with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. March, 11, 2010.

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• Look, America was a narrowly divided country in 2000;49-49 was what Michael Barone called it. It's a 49-49 nation.

  Karl Rove

  Country, America, Looks

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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