Bob Beckel Quotes
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You don't hear much crosstalk on 'The Five.' When you try to make a point, the other person will back off.
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We know that in the Muslim communities around the world, they do not like us. They recruit people from poor areas and turn them into terrorists.
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I do oppose repealing Obamacare, because it's working for growing numbers of previously uninsured Americans.
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Carmakers do not lobby to remove safety regulations on their vehicles, but the NRA constantly lobbies to keep restrictions off deadly weapons.
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Republicans want to use Obamacare in the 2014 elections against Democrats who voted for it. They want to see it fail, even at the expense of people's health.
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When I came to faith, I was on pro-choice boards, and I dropped off of those because you couldn't read the Bible and be pro-choice.
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What I have learned over hundreds of campaigns is if you have lost voters who have supported you in the past, you can get them back. If you never had them, it is a very difficult sell.
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Rural voters believed the Democrats traded millions in campaign cash at their expense. Along came a guy named Trump to give these voters a political voice.
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Too many younger people seem to prefer following celebrities instead of doing the work required to get an education that will someday lead to a job. If students today spent as much time on math and science and history as they do following these shallow celebrities, they might actually become contributors to society someday.
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When a black man is stopped by a cop for no apparent reason, that is covert racism. When a black woman shops in a fancy store and is followed by security guards, that is covert racism. It is more subtle than 1960s racism, but it is still racism.
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In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.
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I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.
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Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.
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Trump has predicated his whole campaign on the unfairness of the playing field. Big corporations, rich donors, big media, and trade deals that punish the little guy.
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In the black community, Trump's history of racial discrimination is deeply embedded.
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Trump is going to be around a while.
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Congress continues to pass laws to limit lobbyists' influence, but people find ways to get around them.
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Not only has celebrity dumbed down our politics, it has become intertwined with it.
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In 2016, Trump, with his outsized ego, his anti-immigrant and anti-trade positions, coupled with barely disguised racism and deep-seated sexism and a willingness to lie whenever it suited him, was a near perfect fit.
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Our first priority should be to protect the homeland. If we don't, a future generation might ask, 'Who lost America?'
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When anyone in Washington asks for a favor, no matter how little the favor means to you, act pained and get as much as you can in exchange - even if the person asking is the president of the United States.
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I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.
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If we have intelligence on the location of terrorist training centers, it is insane not to act.
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Iran would have become a nuclear power had President Obama not united most of the world in boycotting Iranian oil sales, which crippled Iran's economy and forced it to negotiate. Other presidents tried to stop Iran's nuclear program. They failed. Obama succeeded.