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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.

Karl Rove

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Karl Rove
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: December 25
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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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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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In chaos, there is opportunity.
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Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?
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The definition of relationships ought to be left up to the states and that proper protections can be put in place for the right to visit in the hospital or the right to inherit or other legal contractual questions like that.
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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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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'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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The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.
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But the world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.
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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 believe in limited government and the right of the individual to make choices and in a strong national defense and in freedom and liberty as being the right of every person on the face of the Earth.
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The president has an obligation to serve all the people of America.
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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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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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Senator McCain believes there ought to be a limit to how much the government can take from anybody, and he believes that today with the federal tax rate at 35 percent that that's more than the government ought to be taking from any individual regardless of how much they make.
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Marriage is and should be defined as being between one man and one woman.
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If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.
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