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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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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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America
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Once again the powers of light and good have triumphed over the media!
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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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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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
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And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.
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Negative politics have always been around.
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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.
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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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It's time to put America at the front of all of our agendas and to find ways to work together on common ground.
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Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it.
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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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I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.
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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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We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.
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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.
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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 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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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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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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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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