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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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

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When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. – Herbert Hoover

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. – Francis Bacon

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No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics. – Evander Holyfield

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I dont want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When Im finished with my term as governor, Im going back to the life thats waiting for me in the private sector. – Jesse Ventura

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