Rove Quotes

President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn`t a Nazi, he wouldn`t have any credibility with conservatives at all.

Tonight, a surprising new development in the CIA leak investigation. Karl Rove`s testimony to a federal grand jury is being reported. The testimony suggests that President Bush`s political adviser may not have been the original source for the Valerie Plame leak. Rove testifying that he first learned about Plame from columnist Robert Novak, a CNN contributor. Dana Bash reports.

Not having Karl Rove indicted at this time is somewhat beneficial. `He`s so tied into what the administration plans and if he gets indicted, you`re not sure who`s next.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings,

If he was indicted, that would have been a huge problem for the president. He would have been gone. Obviously there are other people there, but no one is like Karl Rove.

The ferocity with which the presidential press corps went after the Karl Rove story is startling, but it shouldn`t be surprising.

If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame`s name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson`s wife was a CIA agent.

Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A.

We also quoted Robert Luskin, Rove`s attorney, acknowledging that Rove did speak to Cooper late on the week prior to the article coming out, which would have been July 10 or 11.

Potentially significant, by the way, because we don`t know exactly what`s in Matt Cooper`s notes, and we don`t know - and we don`t still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame`s name to him.

This was the first time I had heard anything about Wilson`s wife. Rove never once indicated to me that she had any kind of covert status.

I figured out Karl Rove`s political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls."

(But whether Rove will be charged,) it`s anybody`s guess, ... We just don`t know what (Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald) will do.

The president`s chief adviser, Karl Rove , has said repeatedly that one of his goals for this election was to increase the turnout among evangelical Christians. In his estimation, some 4 million evangelical Christians stayed home in 2000 and did not vote. So one of the things is to ... turn out your base.

Rasputin being Karl Rove, who thinks these 10 million illegals will become citizens and vote Republican.

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.