Tag: Karl Rove

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.

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

Negative politics have always been around.

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.

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.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.