The fallback position in politics is if you dont know what you want to be about, and if you dont know what your vision is, go at somebody else. – Karl Rove
Ill never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You cant go back in life. I wont go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way. – Karl Rove
I know enough about European politics to know youve got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot. – Karl Rove
Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, its around the world. – Karl Rove
And I think theres something about conservatives frankly – and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred. – Karl Rove
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. – Karl Rove
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. – Karl Rove
Look, there ought to be politics in politics. – Karl Rove
Negative politics have always been around. – Karl Rove
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. – Karl Rove
I believe in traditional marriage. – Karl Rove
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. – Karl Rove
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush. – Karl Rove
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. – Karl Rove
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. – Karl Rove
And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air. – Karl Rove
