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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.

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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Negative politics have always been around.
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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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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 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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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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My Greek mythology is not strong enough.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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The president has an obligation to serve all the people of America.
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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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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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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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Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.
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[T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate.
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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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Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it.
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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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