Latest Karl Rove Quotes from Interviews

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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

• So Americans do want their presidents, by and large, you want them to be people who get things done and have experience. That's going to be Trump's big disadvantage going into this election, because people are going to be looking back and saying, we've got the guy without the experience who said the things that sounded good. And guess what? That hasn't worked out for us too well.

  Karl Rove

  People, Guy, President

  "Administration Avoiding FOX, Willie Nelson's Arrest; 'Teen Mom' Star Attacks Woman - Part 2". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 30, 2011.

• It's a complex system we live in to think the actions that we take have consequences beyond the years in which we serve, and we all have an obligation to do what is best for our country.

  Karl Rove

  Country, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• That's important, I think, for people who come here to realize that we are here for only a time and we have an obligation of service and we need to keep things in perspective.

  Karl Rove

  Thinking, People, Perspective

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• My Greek mythology is not strong enough.

  Karl Rove

  Strong, Greek, Enough

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.

  Karl Rove

  Party, Giving, Chance

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• I believe in limited government and the right of the individual to make choices and in a strong national defense and in freedom and liberty as being the right of every person on the face of the Earth.

  Karl Rove

  Strong, Believe, Government

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.

  Karl Rove

  Party, Believe, Principles

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• 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

• Social Security is fine for those at or near retirement today. For those receiving their checks today, don't worry. It's going to be there for you. For those that are nearing their retirement years, don't worry, it's going to be there for you. But for your kids - for your boy and my boy, and for their children, for our kids and grandkids, it's a real big question as to whether or not the system's going to be there.

  Karl Rove

  Retirement, Children, Real

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• To be able to compete, we've got to improve our education system, our litigation environment, our tax code, our health system and our trading policies if we're going to be as strong economically in the years ahead.

  Karl Rove

  Strong, Years, Able

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• Our health-care issues is another big structural drag. All of these need to be dealt with if we're going to keep the American economy the most dynamic and flexible in the world.

  Karl Rove

  Issues, Needs, World

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• If we're going to have a strong and dynamic economy in the years ahead, we need to tackle some of the structural challenges that our economy faces and the tax code is one of the biggest.

  Karl Rove

  Strong, Years, Challenges

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• If you are wealthy and can hire enough accountants and attorneys, you can find ways around the code. It's fundamentally not fair. It wastes a lot of time and energy and effort to comply with it. It doesn't encourage savings and investment. And we need to simply it and make it more fair.

  Karl Rove

  Effort, Way, Waste

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• The definition of relationships ought to be left up to the states and that proper protections can be put in place for the right to visit in the hospital or the right to inherit or other legal contractual questions like that.

  Karl Rove

  Definitions, Protection, States

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• 5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of a few local elected officials.

  Karl Rove

  Years, Judging, Should

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• Marriage is and should be defined as being between one man and one woman.

  Karl Rove

  Men, Should, One Woman

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• You're entitled in this country to worship as you please or to not worship. It's one of the great things that defines us as a nation, and it's at the heart of what it is to be in America.

  Karl Rove

  Country, Heart, America

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• 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

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

  Karl Rove

  America, People, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• 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

• It's a mandate for you to do in office what you said you would do on the campaign trail.

  Karl Rove

  Office, Campaigns, Said

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• 71 percent of the American people think that the federal government should take no more than 20 percent of anybody's paycheck no matter how much they make.

  Karl Rove

  Thinking, Government, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• 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

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

  Karl Rove

  Believe, Government, America

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com