Quote

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.

Karl Rove

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Like
Movement
People
Hand
Friedrich
Party
August
Read
Underneath
Hands
Economist
Find
Tea
Look
Sophisticated
Looks
Surface

More quotes by Karl Rove

Image
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.
Karl Rove
Image
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.
Karl Rove
Image
I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
Karl Rove
Image
[T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate.
Karl Rove
Image
I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
Karl Rove
Image
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
Image
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.
Karl Rove
Image
Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
Karl Rove
Image
Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.
Karl Rove
Image
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.
Karl Rove
Image
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.
Karl Rove
Image
But the world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.
Karl Rove
Image
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
Image
The president has an obligation to serve all the people of America.
Karl Rove
Image
If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.
Karl Rove
Image
If you are wealthy and can hire enough accountants and attorneys, you can find ways around the code. It's fundamentally not fair. It wastes a lot of time and energy and effort to comply with it. It doesn't encourage savings and investment. And we need to simply it and make it more fair.
Karl Rove
Image
My Greek mythology is not strong enough.
Karl Rove
Image
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.
Karl Rove
Image
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?
Karl Rove
Image
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.
Karl Rove