Bob Beckel Quotes
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I've been involved in five presidential campaigns, once as national campaign manager for Walter Mondale.
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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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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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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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My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.
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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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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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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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Anger in the black community towards Republicans is established and immutable.
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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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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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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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Ideological purity does not now, nor has it ever, produced results.
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In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.
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Unless public officials are wealthy and fund their own campaigns, the only place they can turn to is lobbyists and institutions like labor unions and corporations.
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In the black community, Trump's history of racial discrimination is deeply embedded.
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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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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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Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.
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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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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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I understand why foreign government contributions to the Clinton Foundation could raise ethical issues should Hillary run for president.
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Always taken Donald Trump seriously. I think people have underestimated him.
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Politicos talk a big game about bringing jobs to devastated cities like Detroit, but rarely succeed.