Karl Rove Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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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 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.

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• 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.

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

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• I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from – they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.

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• I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you’d find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Well, I’m a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.

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• Well, I don’t want to become a prognosticator.

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• The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.

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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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• 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.

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Karl Rove (54)

Birth:	25th December, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Political Consultant

About

Karl Christian Rove is an American Republican political consultant and policy advisor. He was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff during the George W. Bush administration until Rove's resignation on August 31, 2007. He has also headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. Since leaving the White House, Rove has worked as a political analyst and contributor for Fox News, Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal.

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