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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.

Karl Rove

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Karl Rove
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: December 25
Former White House Deputy Chief Of Staff
Journalist
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Political Adviser
Politician
Denver
Colorado
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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.
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The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.
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In chaos, there is opportunity.
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Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.
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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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[T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate.
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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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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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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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Marriage is and should be defined as being between one man and one woman.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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I`m not planning to endorse anybody. I have a long friendship with the family and a long friendship with Jeb [Bush], but I`m, like a lot of people, sitting on the sidelines watching and waiting.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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Guy got in a gyrocopter in Gettysburg, flew under the radar all the way to Washington and came - What if he had had rather than petitions to Congress had had a bomb?
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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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