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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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Karl Rove
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: December 25
Former White House Deputy Chief Of Staff
Journalist
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Political Adviser
Politician
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Colorado
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Look, America was a narrowly divided country in 200049-49 was what Michael Barone called it. It's a 49-49 nation.
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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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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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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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My Greek mythology is not strong enough.
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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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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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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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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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I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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Once again the powers of light and good have triumphed over the media!
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If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.
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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.
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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.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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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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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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Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.
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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.
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