Bob Beckel Quotes
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Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.
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If I never hear of Kim Kardashian and Casey Anthony again, it would make my entire day.
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Putting fear into people is the principal goal of terrorists, and they have been successful.
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The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.
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There have been plenty of Republican efforts to go to the extreme scandal zone. Impeaching Bill Clinton was a classic example. Fortunately, the Senate had enough sense to acquit Clinton, and the American people were behind him in huge numbers.
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As a survivor, you learn how to talk fast, cut deals, lie when you have to - perfect training to be a politician, you know?
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I have long believed there is a lot of waste in the defense budget.
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An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures.
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We need to gather intelligence, but we need to do so legally.
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The questions I get invariably focus on Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity. It's no secret Hannity is conservative, and O'Reilly certainly is not a liberal. Beck goes well beyond conservatism to some very strange places.
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Many good journalists have attempted to confront Trump about his many lies and failures, and have failed.
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I can talk to more persuadable voters in a week on 'The Five' than I could at CNN in a year, so it's worked out fine.
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Congress votes for things the military doesn't want, and planes and other weaponry that cost a lot but don't work.
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Very few undocumented workers come here to be unemployed.
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High-quality health care is not available to millions of Americans who don't have health insurance, or whose substandard plans provide minimum coverage. That's why the Affordable Care Act is so important. It provides quality health insurance to both the uninsured and underinsured.
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Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis had enormous talent, and Elvis was the major contributor to an entirely new genre of music. Sometimes their exploits were distasteful to people, but they left behind an enormous body of work that endures.
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Republicans just don't get that their idea of scandal is not what the average American thinks is a serious scandal.
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Hillary Clinton is in political trouble and perhaps even legal trouble over her use of private e-mail accounts and bypassing government-issued accounts containing substantial amounts of information that belongs to the federal government. But ultimately, I don't think this latest controversy will hurt her presidential ambitions.
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I have never analyzed a presidential election as much as I did the Trump-Clinton race of 2016.
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I always say if anybody is running for president, for office, I always take them seriously.
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The vast majority of Secret Service agents are incredibly competent people.
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The fact of the matter, it's that Trump is getting money from blue-collar workers who send him checks for $250. Why? Who is Donald Trump? It's not who he is, it's who he isn't. Not what he is for, what he is against - that is, everything Washington is doing.
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There is no doubt that terrorists acting under the banner of Islam have declared war on us.
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Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schools were still segregated, blacks still faced barriers to voting, and violence by white racists continued. Such open racism is mostly gone in America, but covert racism is alive and well.