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

Karl Rove

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Karl Rove
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: December 25
Former White House Deputy Chief Of Staff
Journalist
Lobbyist
Political Adviser
Politician
Denver
Colorado
Karl Christian Rove
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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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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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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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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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Once again the powers of light and good have triumphed over the media!
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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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In chaos, there is opportunity.
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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.
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But the world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.
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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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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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Negative politics have always been around.
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If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.
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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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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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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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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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The president has an obligation to serve all the people of America.
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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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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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