Bob Beckel Quotes
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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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Trump is part of the reason you are suffering. Trump is the one playing on the not-so-level playing field where he wins and you lose.
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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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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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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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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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In the black community, Trump's history of racial discrimination is deeply embedded.
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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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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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Both parties are so entrenched in their ideologies and a desire to score political points and hold on to power that we never seem to agree on a problem, much less find solutions.
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In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.
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A few states have taken redistricting out of the hands of partisans and put them in the hands of fair-minded committees. Every state should do the same.
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Trump is going to be around a while.
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Anger in the black community towards Republicans is established and immutable.
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Ideological purity does not now, nor has it ever, produced results.
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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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Not only has celebrity dumbed down our politics, it has become intertwined with it.
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Always taken Donald Trump seriously. I think people have underestimated him.
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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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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 understand why foreign government contributions to the Clinton Foundation could raise ethical issues should Hillary run for president.
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I salute South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Lindsey Graham for their calls to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the Statehouse.
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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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Politicos talk a big game about bringing jobs to devastated cities like Detroit, but rarely succeed.