Karl Rove
On August 31, 2007, Karl Rove resigned from his position in the George W. Bush administration, ending his service as Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff. That date marks the formal close of his time working directly within the White House.
Born in Denver on December 25, 1950, Rove attended Olympus High School before going on to study at the University of Utah, the University of Texas at Austin, and George Mason University. Over the course of his career he worked across several roles — politician, political adviser, lobbyist, and journalist. His connection to the Bush administration placed him in a series of significant positions: he served as Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff, and he headed three offices within the White House — the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives.
Rove is identified as one of the architects of the Iraq War, a designation that links him directly to one of the major foreign policy decisions of the Bush presidency. His resignation on August 31, 2007, came during Bush's second term. The Library of Congress catalogs him under the authorized label "Rove, Karl."
Quotes by Karl Rove
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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. It's easy to point at me. I'm convenient.
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans – unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
In Europe and the United States, you’ve got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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?
And I think there’s something about conservatives frankly – and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you’d find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
I think it’s dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they’ve been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.
What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn’t really ‘empathy’ and ‘understanding.’ He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
I know enough about European politics to know you’ve got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.