Karl Rove
If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.
I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
Negative politics have always been around.
The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.
I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.
Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates.
I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S. senator. I personally contributed my own money.
We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.Collection: Reality
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.Collection: Mean
In chaos, there is opportunity.Collection: Opportunity
The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.Collection: People
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 and 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.Collection: Military
You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.Collection: Math
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.Collection: Motivational
One of the great things about America is that we have the freedom to worship or not worship as we please. It doesn't matter whether you're a Christian, Jew, Muslim. It doesn't matter whether you're an evangelical or a Catholic or a moderate Jew. You're entitled to worship - or an agnostic or atheist.Collection: Christian
The president has an obligation to serve all the people of America.Collection: America
It's time to put America at the front of all of our agendas and to find ways to work together on common ground.Collection: America
If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.Collection: African American
Every presidential spouse is going to be subjected to scrutiny.Collection: Presidential
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.Collection: Jobs
So Americans do want their presidents, by and large, you want them to be people who get things done and have experience. That's going to be Trump's big disadvantage going into this election, because people are going to be looking back and saying, we've got the guy without the experience who said the things that sounded good. And guess what? That hasn't worked out for us too well.Collection: People
The labor movement must be destroyed.Collection: Movement
It's a mandate for you to do in office what you said you would do on the campaign trail.Collection: Office
In America we believe there ought to be limits on government.Collection: Believe
I believe in limited government and the right of the individual to make choices and in a strong national defense and in freedom and liberty as being the right of every person on the face of the Earth.Collection: Strong
Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.Collection: Presidential
That's important, I think, for people who come here to realize that we are here for only a time and we have an obligation of service and we need to keep things in perspective.Collection: Thinking
America has become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.Collection: Struggle
If you are wealthy and can hire enough accountants and attorneys, you can find ways around the code. It's fundamentally not fair. It wastes a lot of time and energy and effort to comply with it. It doesn't encourage savings and investment. And we need to simply it and make it more fair.Collection: Effort
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.Collection: Children
To be able to compete, we've got to improve our education system, our litigation environment, our tax code, our health system and our trading policies if we're going to be as strong economically in the years ahead.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Character
Our health-care issues is another big structural drag. All of these need to be dealt with if we're going to keep the American economy the most dynamic and flexible in the world.Collection: Issues
If we're going to have a strong and dynamic economy in the years ahead, we need to tackle some of the structural challenges that our economy faces and the tax code is one of the biggest.Collection: Strong
If you decide to become a political actor, then the things that you say and you do become subject of public scrutiny and comment.Collection: Political
If you make a mistake, clean it up quicker rather than later.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: Confidence
It's a complex system we live in to think the actions that we take have consequences beyond the years in which we serve, and we all have an obligation to do what is best for our country.Collection: Country
My name is Patrick Fitzgerald ... I like to tear the tops off small animals.Collection: Animal
But the world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.Collection: Gone
71 percent of the American people think that the federal government should take no more than 20 percent of anybody's paycheck no matter how much they make.Collection: Thinking
Senator McCain believes there ought to be a limit to how much the government can take from anybody, and he believes that today with the federal tax rate at 35 percent that that's more than the government ought to be taking from any individual regardless of how much they make.Collection: Believe
Look, America was a narrowly divided country in 2000;49-49 was what Michael Barone called it. It's a 49-49 nation.Collection: Country
I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.Collection: Party
Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.Collection: Party
My Greek mythology is not strong enough.Collection: Strong
The definition of relationships ought to be left up to the states and that proper protections can be put in place for the right to visit in the hospital or the right to inherit or other legal contractual questions like that.Collection: Definitions