Bob Beckel Quotes
Congress continues to pass laws to limit lobbyists' influence, but people find ways to get around them.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I don't feel closeted.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I have no wisdom to share on dating.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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Most people assume that my style is so outlandish and out there, but the reality is I like very classic pieces just rendered unusually.
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John Brown was the abolitionist to end all abolitionists. People thought he was crazy. He was like John Coltrane playing free jazz, exhausting all possibilities in his approach to harmony and improvisation.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
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I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.
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Congress continues to pass laws to limit lobbyists' influence, but people find ways to get around them.
