Political Advisor Quotes

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.

I would have been a Republican, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.

You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.

I got to meet one Chief of Staff: Sam Skinner. He was Chief of Staff at the end of George Sr.'s White House.

Trump and Yanukovych have shared the same political brain: an operative named Paul Manafort.

Steve Bannon is a brilliant tactician.

I call Steve Bannon the general of our campaign. It's true.

Rudy [Giuliani] can talk about whatever he wants to talk about. He's my friend, I like him a lot and respect him, but I don't talk about the advice I give to Donald Trump.

Every President needs a hand holder.

I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.

I was deputy assistant to the president. My job was strategist in the office of the chief strategist, Stephen Bannon. Somebody once described me as the president's national security utility infielder.

The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House.

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

A lot of that will depend on who the person is on [Donald] Trump's, you know, right hand side, whether it's [Stephen] Bannon or whether it's [Reince] Priebus.

The pundit world, having spent years in awe of Karl Rove, will never understand how bad he is at his White House job.