Bob Beckel Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Bob Beckel:

Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.

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Carmakers do not lobby to remove safety regulations on their vehicles, but the NRA constantly lobbies to keep restrictions off deadly weapons.

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

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

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The vast majority of Secret Service agents are incredibly competent people.

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Iranians have suffered economically under the U.S.-led sanctions.

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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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High-quality health care is not available to millions of Americans who don't have health insurance, or whose substandard plans provide minimum coverage. That's why the Affordable Care Act is so important. It provides quality health insurance to both the uninsured and underinsured.

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

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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.

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If I never hear of Kim Kardashian and Casey Anthony again, it would make my entire day.

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I've been involved in five presidential campaigns, once as national campaign manager for Walter Mondale.

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I have never analyzed a presidential election as much as I did the Trump-Clinton race of 2016.

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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.

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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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Our first priority should be to protect the homeland. If we don't, a future generation might ask, 'Who lost America?'

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If pluralism and academic freedom are to be used to defend liberal speakers and ideas, they ought to be equally valid for conservative views.

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

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

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You don't hear much crosstalk on 'The Five.' When you try to make a point, the other person will back off.

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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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Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.

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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.

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Charter schools are not a panacea.

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I have long been an advocate of school choice, but I also believe the problem lies with school administrators and union leaders who refuse to believe there is such a thing as a bad school.

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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.

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The U.S. military cannot fight Iraq's war for them.

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Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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I have long believed there is a lot of waste in the defense budget.

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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.

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We need to gather intelligence, but we need to do so legally.

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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.

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