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

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Hope
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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

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Morning
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We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain. – Lucy Powell

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In politics, yesterdays lie is attacked only to flatter todays. – Jean Rostand

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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life. – Saul Alinsky

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