Words matter. These are the best Bob Beckel Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
I’ve been involved in five presidential campaigns, once as national campaign manager for Walter Mondale.
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.
Charter schools are not a panacea.
I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.
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.
There is no doubt that terrorists acting under the banner of Islam have declared war on us.
There have been plenty of Republican efforts to go to the extreme scandal zone. Impeaching Bill Clinton was a classic example. Fortunately, the Senate had enough sense to acquit Clinton, and the American people were behind him in huge numbers.
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.
Iranians have suffered economically under the U.S.-led sanctions.
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.
I came from a dysfunctional family – very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.
It should be mandatory that any tax breaks go through appropriate committees and be voted on separately by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Anger in the black community towards Republicans is established and immutable.
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.
The decision in McCutcheon v. FEC is a devastating blow in efforts to rein in out-of-control costs of campaigns.
Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.
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.
If we have intelligence on the location of terrorist training centers, it is insane not to act.
I do oppose repealing Obamacare, because it’s working for growing numbers of previously uninsured Americans.
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.
We’ve come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.
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.
Politicos talk a big game about bringing jobs to devastated cities like Detroit, but rarely succeed.
My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.
The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.
I understand why foreign government contributions to the Clinton Foundation could raise ethical issues should Hillary run for president.
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.
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 strongly favor shortening the campaign season and putting more primaries and caucuses on the same day, preferably regionally.
There is a huge difference between gathering intelligence in foreign countries, even our allies, and secretly getting information on U.S. citizens.
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.
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 am not opposed to government efforts to stop terrorist plots. We are still seared by the memory of 9/11, and we should be.
Congress votes for things the military doesn’t want, and planes and other weaponry that cost a lot but don’t work.
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.
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.
Carmakers do not lobby to remove safety regulations on their vehicles, but the NRA constantly lobbies to keep restrictions off deadly weapons.
Very few undocumented workers come here to be unemployed.
Our first priority should be to protect the homeland. If we don’t, a future generation might ask, ‘Who lost America?’
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.
The U.S. military cannot fight Iraq’s war for them.
Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.
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.
Many good journalists have attempted to confront Trump about his many lies and failures, and have failed.
The vast majority of Secret Service agents are incredibly competent people.
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.
Ideological purity does not now, nor has it ever, produced results.
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.
