Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Beckel
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
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.
In the black community, Trump's history of racial discrimination is deeply embedded.
Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.
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.
If I never hear of Kim Kardashian and Casey Anthony again, it would make my entire day.
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.
As tragic as Benghazi was, its importance pales next to killing Osama bin Laden.
Life is a series of chapters, and one leads to another to another to another, and God knows what it is.
Many good journalists have attempted to confront Trump about his many lies and failures, and have failed.
Some credit is due to Trump for seizing the anti establishment mood of the country, but most of his success can be attributed to pure luck.
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.
I understand why foreign government contributions to the Clinton Foundation could raise ethical issues should Hillary run for president.
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.
Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.
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.
My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.
The hardest-hit taxpayers in our disgraceful tax system are those folks who pack Trump's rallies, especially in hard-hit Rust Belt states like Ohio and Michigan.
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.
Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.
I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.
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.
Domestic wiretaps, government television cameras blanketing our streets, spy drones by the thousands flying over our heads. It makes you wonder if the very foundation of this great country, which is liberty, is eroding right before our eyes.
Politicos talk a big game about bringing jobs to devastated cities like Detroit, but rarely succeed.
Charter schools are not a panacea.
Hillary Clinton is in political trouble and perhaps even legal trouble over her use of private e-mail accounts and bypassing government-issued accounts containing substantial amounts of information that belongs to the federal government. But ultimately, I don't think this latest controversy will hurt her presidential ambitions.
Ever since 9/11, our intelligence agencies, as part of the 'war on terror,' have expanded their operations to include American citizens. I was 'terrorized' when I learned that the National Security Agency was intercepting information on Americans.
Always taken Donald Trump seriously. I think people have underestimated him.
Very few undocumented workers come here to be unemployed.
You don't hear much crosstalk on 'The Five.' When you try to make a point, the other person will back off.
Carmakers do not lobby to remove safety regulations on their vehicles, but the NRA constantly lobbies to keep restrictions off deadly weapons.
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.
I can talk to more persuadable voters in a week on 'The Five' than I could at CNN in a year, so it's worked out fine.
I have never analyzed a presidential election as much as I did the Trump-Clinton race of 2016.
Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis had enormous talent, and Elvis was the major contributor to an entirely new genre of music. Sometimes their exploits were distasteful to people, but they left behind an enormous body of work that endures.
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.
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.
I always say if anybody is running for president, for office, I always take them seriously.
As a survivor, you learn how to talk fast, cut deals, lie when you have to - perfect training to be a politician, you know?
Iranians have suffered economically under the U.S.-led sanctions.
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.
It's time to review what damage the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has done to our political system.
There is a huge difference between gathering intelligence in foreign countries, even our allies, and secretly getting information on U.S. citizens.
Congress continues to pass laws to limit lobbyists' influence, but people find ways to get around them.
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.
In 1984, I managed Walter Mondale's campaign for president. Mondale won the nomination after a bruising battle with Colorado Senator Gary Hart and Reverend Jesse Jackson.
On the road to the GOP nomination, Trump earned the reputation as a good debater by slandering and bullying his opponents, knocking them out with cheap shots and lies. On a crowded stage, Trump got away with these deplorable tactics.
The fact of the matter, it's that Trump is getting money from blue-collar workers who send him checks for $250. Why? Who is Donald Trump? It's not who he is, it's who he isn't. Not what he is for, what he is against - that is, everything Washington is doing.
In the 1990s, the Democratic Party began to cozy up to their long-time enemies: Wall Street Bankers. They took their money and relaxed their regulations until the Great Recession forced the Democrats via Dodd-Frank to re-regulate the banks.
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.
The questions I get invariably focus on Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity. It's no secret Hannity is conservative, and O'Reilly certainly is not a liberal. Beck goes well beyond conservatism to some very strange places.
I do oppose repealing Obamacare, because it's working for growing numbers of previously uninsured Americans.
Most voters assume because these political 'pros' are on TV or write for national papers, they know politics. Sadly, most don't have a clue.
As a former presidential campaign manager, I remember the final week of the campaign as being the longest and most important week of the campaign. The week doesn't seem to end.
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.
Congress votes for things the military doesn't want, and planes and other weaponry that cost a lot but don't work.
Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schools were still segregated, blacks still faced barriers to voting, and violence by white racists continued. Such open racism is mostly gone in America, but covert racism is alive and well.
If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off.
I have long believed there is a lot of waste in the defense budget.
Trump is going to be around a while.
Anger in the black community towards Republicans is established and immutable.
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