Bob Beckel

Journalist

100 Quotes

As tragic as Benghazi was, its importance pales next to killing Osama bin Laden.

I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.

Congress votes for things the military doesn't want, and planes and other weaponry that cost a lot but don't work.

Most federal employees perform their tasks honorably and well.

There is no doubt that terrorists acting under the banner of Islam have declared war on us.

My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.

In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.

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.

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.

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.

Politicos talk a big game about bringing jobs to devastated cities like Detroit, but rarely succeed.

The decision in McCutcheon v. FEC is a devastating blow in efforts to rein in out-of-control costs of campaigns.

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.

In the black community, Trump's history of racial discrimination is deeply embedded.

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.

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 strongly favor shortening the campaign season and putting more primaries and caucuses on the same day, preferably regionally.

Trump is going to be around a while.

Always taken Donald Trump seriously. I think people have underestimated him.

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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