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Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the U.N.'s going to take over'? Well, they're beginning to have a case.

I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.

I like Bill Clinton.

No true patriot could be for Ron Paul.

Truth is that which cannot be proved false.

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

Every donation received is a potential negative ad. Vetting money is just as important as raising it.

If you're going to be a sexual predator, be a Democrat.

Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country.

[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable.

In fighting scandal, the key is not to overreact.

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.

It is from the center that leaders must lead.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.

There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.

The White House will run itself while the president is away. That's why he has to be sure not to be away too much.

The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.

Nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy

The top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

The key to running a campaign on the cheap is to avoid spending money on anything other than projecting a message.

Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.