Karl Rove Quotations | Page 2

The United States faces a ruthless enemy - and we need a commander-in-chief and a Congress who understand the nature of the threat and the gravity that American finds itself in. President Bush and the Republican Party do. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for many Democrats.

The wind and tide are running in our favor,

The will of the American people cannot be subverted in case after case, on issue after issue, year after year, without provoking a strong counter-reaction.

These attempts, and many, many more ... have led to widespread concern about our courts, ... In America, conservatives are winning the battle of ideas on almost every front.

the most soulless place I had ever been . . It was demeaning. It was degrading. It was very lonely.

stunning ethical breach that cries out for an immediate investigation.

Al Gore's been doing this with (Illinois Sen.) Dick Durbin, and (Massachusetts Sen.) John Kerry, and there's been endless speculation about it.

Younger, blue-collar males are the soccer moms of this election,

This is his high water mark. New Hampshire might be the same for John McCain.

This is not as susceptible to confusion as Chairman Daley indicated.

This debate will produce a small (positive polling) change for Bush. That change won't matter too much, because most of the change we needed occurred with the end of the first two debates. And that doesn't bother me a bit.

They had to roll Clinton out of the hospital room and onto the campaign trail to help Senator Kerry with his core constituencies, who are so weak,

They are clearly concerned about too many judges too ready and eager to legislate from too many benches,

a summary of two centuries of federal employee benefit history.

It's a wonderful night, and I hope you get your pictures and go home and have a nice dinner,

For decades the American people have seen decision after decision after decision that strikes them as fundamentally out of touch with our Constitution.

It's pretty pathetic to have the vice president of the United States down here mouthing off,

not easily, not quickly, but confirmed after a hard effort.

The world is full of people who are discerning, and we need to recognize that concrete information told with honesty and specificity and integrity is important to the ultimate success in this conflict.

This is a very good proving ground for the belief that Democrats can talk about values and their faith and it will make a difference,

a period early in the new year where people reach out and work together, and we certainly want to do that.

Arkansas he might do some damage to us, ... presence on the stage just diminishes Gore.

The investigation on Karl as you know is not completed. Therefore I will not comment about him and/or the investigation.

If more people in government knew about the press and more people in the press knew about governing, the world would be a better place to live. Journalists would perform their craft better if they were more understanding of the realities and complexities of running for and serving in public life.

In the normal back-and-forth between prosecutor and defense attorneys, some issues were raised that made the prosecutor step back and have pause for thought as far as his future activities, ... He thought, 'This is enough for me to hold off making decisions.'

I don't see Dick Cheney's leadership in running a construction and oil service company to be a problem at all when compared to this administration's failure to have a comprehensive energy policy,

I can make him president of the United States.

Once again the powers of light and good have triumphed over the media!

To win in November, Republican candidates must show they are in touch with voter concerns about growth, jobs, paychecks, government spending and debt. The only way to do this is by offering specific, persuasive ideas.

The Democratic Party's problem is that voters don't believe the president's claims that the economy is thriving. Even people with jobs feel apprehensive. Paychecks are flat, growth anemic, and people are worried about their children's prospects. Mr. Obama had a 38% approval on handling the economy in the Sept. 9 Fox News poll. In the Sept. 7 NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 67% believe America is on the wrong track.

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

There has to be a consequence to failure. Schools in the inner cities cannot be told, 'Oh, we want you to teach every child to learn how to read and, incidentally, if you fail to do that there's no consequence,' .. There has to be a consequence to failure, and the Title I money needs to follow the child.

I believe in traditional marriage.

Now is the time to be bold. It is easy when the wind is at your back. But the real test is now when the wind is in our face. That's when we find out if we are tough enough. Inspired enough, committed enough.

It's been just a year since the RNC committed to revamp the way they help our candidates with its 'Growth and Opportunity Project,' and already there are signs of improvement. From new leadership and initiatives in the digital arena, to improving the GOP ground game (as we just saw with David Jolly's victory in FL-13), to the historic decision to restructure the primary calendar and primary debates, the RNC's steps will help keep the House and to take the Senate in 2014, win the White House in 2016, and build for the future. Looking forward to more progress in the months ahead.

Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

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

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

We need to be asking for the vote in the most powerful way possible, which is to have people asking for the vote who are comfortable and look like and sound like the people that we're asking for the vote from.

The labor movement must be destroyed.

But perhaps the most important difference between Conservatives and Liberals can be found in the area of national security. 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. In the wake of 9/11, Conservatives believed it was time to unleash the might and power of the United States military against the Taliban.

Karl Rove told me about Valerie Plame's identity on July 11, 2003. I called him because Ambassador Wilson was in the news that week. I didn't know Ambassador Wilson even had a wife until I talked to Karl Rove, and he said that she worked at the Agency and worked on WMD.

All politicians operate within an Orwellian nimbus where words don't mean what they normally mean, but Rovism posits that there is no objective, verifiable reality at all. Reality is what you say it is, ...

We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.

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

I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble.

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

Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.

I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.

Negative politics have always been around.

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

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

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.

Our [Republicans'] object is to avoid having stupid candidates who can't win general elections, who are undisciplined, can't raise money, aren't putting together the support necessary to win a general election campaign, because this money is too difficult to raise to be spending it on behalf of candidates who have little chance of winning in a general election.

Guy got in a gyrocopter in Gettysburg, flew under the radar all the way to Washington and came - What if he had had rather than petitions to Congress had had a bomb?

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.

You may be right that people say: You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.

When you appoint someone, you appoint somebody because of their character, their convictions, their abilities. And not because you have a belief, a confidence, in a foreordained outcome in any given decision.

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