Bob Beckel Quotes
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My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.
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Like many other Americans, I'm tired of the U.S. taxpayer paying for foreign wars, especially when the countries we defend have raked in huge oil profits.
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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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In the black community, Trump's history of racial discrimination is deeply embedded.
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It is Trump who plays with the tax code to pay no taxes; it is Trump whose Trump-brand products are made overseas by cheap labor; it is Trump who hires undocumented workers from Poland to work on his projects, then refuses to pay them minimum wages.
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I don't have a problem with stepped-up surveillance as long as we follow the rule of law.
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When I worked in the White House in the 1970s and '80s, I was often stopped within the White House by agents checking my credentials. They were very observant and would stop anyone they didn't recognize.
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Anger in the black community towards Republicans is established and immutable.
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I am not opposed to government efforts to stop terrorist plots. We are still seared by the memory of 9/11, and we should be.
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If pluralism and academic freedom are to be used to defend liberal speakers and ideas, they ought to be equally valid for conservative views.
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Ideological purity does not now, nor has it ever, produced results.
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Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.
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If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off.
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It's time to review what damage the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has done to our political system.
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Disney World is exactly the wrong description of how the Secret Service should operate in public. Their jobs are not about pleasing adults and children, but rather protecting the president and the first family.
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As a life-long liberal who has engaged in protests against the government and for civil rights, I am saddened at efforts by some of my fellow liberals to silence commencement speakers with whom they might disagree on some issues.
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I've been involved in five presidential campaigns, once as national campaign manager for Walter Mondale.
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I would be delighted not to see another celebrity, regardless of their political beliefs, come to Washington to make yet another appeal for some cause about which they know little.
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Where most politicians would have abandoned a supporter like Jeremiah Wright and the community he served, Obama, while strongly criticizing him, did not throw his friend overboard.
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Always taken Donald Trump seriously. I think people have underestimated him.
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Republicans need to stop complaining about blacks voting over 90% for Democrats. If they're not willing to compete in those neighborhoods, they will keep losing those voters.
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The decision in McCutcheon v. FEC is a devastating blow in efforts to rein in out-of-control costs of campaigns.
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Every time I think that political analysts and writers will finally recognize that most of them don't understand much about political polls, they prove me wrong. They don't know how to read them; they don't understand the importance of cross tabs within a given poll, and they don't know how to analyze them.
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I understand why foreign government contributions to the Clinton Foundation could raise ethical issues should Hillary run for president.