Quotes from Karl Rove

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

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.

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

Negative politics have always been around.

And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.

I believe in traditional marriage.

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.

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't 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.

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

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?

Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.

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.

I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

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.

Negative politics have always been around.

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

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.'

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.

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do.

At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.