Paul Begala Quotes

Bush began helping Enron in the eighties.

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

When your mission is to restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary.

Politics is show business for ugly people.

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

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.

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.

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

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

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.

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

I try hard to be a good Catholic.

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.

This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Always attack, never defend.

If my wife hears one more report that I'm joining Hillary's campaign I'm going to have to go in the Pundit Protection Program.

I think his deepest quality is empathy.

The difference between Martin Sheen and George W. Bush is Martin Sheen is actually convincing when he acts like he's president.

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.

Culture has always been more important than politics. Sometimes culture is a mirror that reflects what is; sometimes it's a search-light pointing the way to what will be.

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

[Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country.

It is a painful reminder that even the most well-intentioned among us sometimes act in ways that put children in danger of being abused or neglected.

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.

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.

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.