Karl Rove Quotes
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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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Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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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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Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
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I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
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You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'
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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.
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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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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.
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If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
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Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.
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Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
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My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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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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The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
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I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S. senator. I personally contributed my own money.
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Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates.
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We've been probably to some degree too successful.
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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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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.