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

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  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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• 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.

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  Motivational, Success, Real

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Looks, Republican, Notorious

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• In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

  Karl Rove

  Regret, Fate, Hands

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• To win in November, Republican candidates must show they are in touch with voter concerns about growth, jobs, paychecks, government spending and debt. The only way to do this is by offering specific, persuasive ideas.

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  Jobs, Winning, Offering

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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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• 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?

  Karl Rove

  Eye, Years, Hawks

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• 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.

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• Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

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  Competition, Next, World

  Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2004.

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• There has to be a consequence to failure. Schools in the inner cities cannot be told, 'Oh, we want you to teach every child to learn how to read and, incidentally, if you fail to do that there's no consequence,' .. There has to be a consequence to failure, and the Title I money needs to follow the child.

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  Children, School, Cities

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• When you appoint someone, you appoint somebody because of their character, their convictions, their abilities. And not because you have a belief, a confidence, in a foreordained outcome in any given decision.

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  Character, Decision, Outcomes

  "Karl Rove Suggests Stephen Colbert May Need 'Anger Management'". Interview with Kaye Foley, news.yahoo.com. March 24, 2013.

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