Karl Rove Quotes

We did not seek ideological confrontation.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

I want us to war over principles, policies, programs and alternative visions of the future ... but I want us to be able to do that without turning the place [the House of Representatives] into a political Beirut.

We are a divided nation in the worst sense of the word, and we don't hear the other side.

Sometimes people have different views on different issues.

Defenders see things way different than blockers.

Peter Thiel and I disagree on 99 percent of things.

I've had problems with the Republican establishment in the past.

The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.

The press has a tendency to focus on what politicians disagree on.

In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissentions and discords; and one of these, for the most part, must prevail over the other for a longer or shorter time.

The present crisis in the Islamic world may stem from too many loud and conflicting voices, all claiming religious authority.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

The more you expose yourself by coming out with specific positions, the more you alienate various groups.

There used to be a civility. Today, members of Congress would rather destroy another member than compromise.

What if you are a conservative in a liberal environment? Then what you are conserving is liberalism.

I would like to caution you about the use of the word “balance.” …. It a red-hot word that is divisive.

There is a generation or two of intelligent people … Then comes a political catastrophe, and we have to begin all over again. We are so deeply divided between Catholics and liberals, right wing and left, that one-half can never profit by the knowledge and achievements of the other.