Karl Rove Quotes

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.

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.

At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

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.

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

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

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

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

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.

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

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

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

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

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.

Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.

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.

I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

In chaos, there is opportunity.

The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

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.

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

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.

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.

And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.

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

Negative politics have always been around.

That's important, I think, for people who come here to realize that we are here for only a time and we have an obligation of service and we need to keep things in perspective.

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

Every presidential spouse is going to be subjected to scrutiny.

I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

In America we believe there ought to be limits on government.

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.

I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

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.

The labor movement must be destroyed.

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.

Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it.

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

It's time to put America at the front of all of our agendas and to find ways to work together on common ground.

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.

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

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

There is a difference between Senator Obama and Senator McCain. Senator Obama believes that the government ought to be able to take as much as it thinks it needs from anybody.

But the world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.

I think it was Osama bin Laden's [idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq].

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

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

I'm not planning to endorse anybody. I have a long friendship with the family and a long friendship with Jeb [Bush], but I'm, like a lot of people, sitting on the sidelines watching and waiting.