Karl Rove Quotes

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.

71 percent of the American people think that the federal government should take no more than 20 percent of anybody's paycheck no matter how much they make.

My name is Patrick Fitzgerald ... I like to tear the tops off small animals.

If you decide to become a political actor, then the things that you say and you do become subject of public scrutiny and comment.

My Greek mythology is not strong enough.

The government that can take everything from somebody can take everything from everybody. And there ought to be a limit.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

So Americans do want their presidents, by and large, you want them to be people who get things done and have experience. That's going to be Trump's big disadvantage going into this election, because people are going to be looking back and saying, we've got the guy without the experience who said the things that sounded good. And guess what? That hasn't worked out for us too well.

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.

It's a mandate for you to do in office what you said you would do on the campaign trail.

We need to be asking for the vote in the most powerful way possible, which is to have people asking for the vote who are comfortable and look like and sound like the people that we're asking for the vote from.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

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.

America has become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

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.

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.

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.

Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.

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.

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.

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.

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.

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

Our health-care issues is another big structural drag. All of these need to be dealt with if we're going to keep the American economy the most dynamic and flexible in the world.

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

The president has an obligation to serve all the people of America.

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.

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.

Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.

To be able to compete, we've got to improve our education system, our litigation environment, our tax code, our health system and our trading policies if we're going to be as strong economically in the years ahead.

'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

Marriage is and should be defined as being between one man and one woman.

The labor movement must be destroyed.

I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.

I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

If you make a mistake, clean it up quicker rather than later.

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.

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

But perhaps the most important difference between conservatives and liberals can be found in the area of national security. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. In the wake of 9/11, conservatives believed it was time to unleash the might and power of the United States military against the Taliban.

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.