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[T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate.

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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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Economy

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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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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.
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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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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 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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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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But the world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.
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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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Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 told me about Valerie Plame's identity on July 11, 2003. I called him because Ambassador Wilson was in the news that week. I didn't know Ambassador Wilson even had a wife until I talked to Karl Rove, and he said that she worked at the Agency and worked on WMD.
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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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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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Once again the powers of light and good have triumphed over the media!
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