Paul Begala quotes

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it. (Paul Begala)

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

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Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

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I'm very sunny. You know, I'm always optimistic.

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Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kinda cool.

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I am actually pro-cursing. I think it's good. I think we should teach kids to curse, so they don't use drugs. It doesn't rot your brain. It doesn't get you pregnant. It doesn't kill you, like tobacco.

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Two Corinthians walk into a bar...

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One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.

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What he has spent it on, apparently, is just hiring a bunch of staff people to wander around Utah and Mississippi and pick their nose.

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Will we lift our sights to meet his vision?

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Politics is show business for ugly people. (Paul Begala)

But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues - being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives.

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I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up.

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It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

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I try hard to be a good Catholic.

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If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.

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So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.

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I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.

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Bush began helping Enron in the eighties.

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See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.

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I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing? (Paul Begala)

If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.

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I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.

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There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.

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Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.

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Occupation: American Journalist
Born: May 12, 1961
Quotes count: 37
Wikipedia: Paul Begala

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