Paul Begala Quotes

• 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.

  Paul Begala

  Topics in Life

  Tags in People, Fight

• Bush began helping Enron in the eighties.

  Paul Begala

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Helping

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

  Paul Begala

  Topics in America, History

  Tags in Investigate

• Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.

  Paul Begala

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in National, National Security

• 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.

  Paul Begala

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Encourage

• I didn’t spend a lot of time on national security the American people will be glad to know.

  Paul Begala

  Topics in America

  Tags in Time

• Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who’s gonna’ win it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Win

• I grew up in Tom DeLay’s district.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Grow Up

• I don’t like being a voyeur, looking into other people’s marriages.

  Paul Begala

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Marriage

• 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

  Topics in America

  Tags in Marriage, Girl

• I used to go in at 5:30 or 6:00 so I could run.

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  Tags in Run

• I try hard to be a good Catholic.

  Paul Begala

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hard

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

  Paul Begala

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  Tags in Think

• 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.

  Paul Begala

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Political

• 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.

  Paul Begala

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Comfortable, Win

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

  Paul Begala

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Friends

• I’m very sunny. You know, I’m always optimistic.

  Paul Begala

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Always, Know, Knowing

• It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.

  Paul Begala

  Topics in America

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

  Paul Begala

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Lies And Lying

• It taught me that Clinton’s instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

  Paul Begala

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Human Being, Answer

Paul Begala (30)

Birth:	12th May, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Commentator, Political Consultant

About

Paul Edward Begala is an American political consultant and political commentator. He was an adviser to President Bill Clinton. Begala was a chief strategist for the 1992 Clinton–Gore campaign, which carried 33 states and made Clinton the first Democrat to win the White House in sixteen years. As counselor to the President in the Clinton White House, he coordinated policy, politics, and communications.

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