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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.
Karl Rove
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Karl Rove
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: December 25
Former White House Deputy Chief Of Staff
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Karl Christian Rove
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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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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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Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.
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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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