Quote by Karl Rove
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil

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

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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

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Karl Rove
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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. – Karl Rove

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cool
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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

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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. – Henry A. Kissinger

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Politics thrives on simple, clean messages, something that played to Obamas advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of Americas AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obamas watch, and theres no one left to blame. – John Sununu

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Its really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how youre going to get it to these people. – Bob Geldof

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In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960s. – Jim Lehrer

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If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students? – Paul Wellstone

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So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again. – Rosalind Wiseman

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I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head. – Malcolm Mclaren

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