List of Paul Begala Quotes

North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms Has Signed A Deal With Random House To Write His Memoirs. Scholars Will No Doubt Benefit From The Reflections Of A Man Who Was Wrong On Every Major Issue For 40 Years. Helms' Aides Say The Proceeds From The Book Will Be Donated To The Non-profit Jesse Helms Center Where They Apparently Have More Experience Burning Than Publishing Them.

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.

You Can Drive Yourself Crazy Trying To Peer Into A Person's Soul--or You Can Do The Sensible Thing: Ask Not What Inner Motives Drive A Politician's Policy Choices But Instead Whether Those Choices Are Good For The Country.

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.

I Didn't Spend A Lot Of Time On National Security The American People Will Be Glad To Know.

Always Attack, Never Defend.

Bush Began Helping Enron In The Eighties.

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.

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.

It Must Kill George Bush That John Mccain Is The Most Popular And Beloved Republican In America.

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.

In Our System, Grand Juries Take Every Charge, Every Lie, And They Try To Sort The Truth From The Lies, And Then They Move Forward Into The System. And That's How The System Ought To Work. We Should Respect The Secrecy Of The Grand Jury So They Can Sort Through What's True And What's Not. And Someone Is Leaking, And If They Are Leaking From The Grand Jury Investigation, Then That's A Violation Of The Law.

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.

I Think His Deepest Quality Is Empathy.

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?

I Try Hard To Be A Good Catholic.

I'm Very Sunny. You Know, I'm Always Optimistic.

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.

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.

The Difference Between Martin Sheen And George W. Bush Is Martin Sheen Is Actually Convincing When He Acts Like He's President.

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.

If You're A Limited Government Conservative, I Feel Your Pain. Your Man Mr. Bush Has Exploded The Size Of Government, Ballooned The Deficit And Increased Government Power So Dramatically That He Claims The Right To Eavesdrop On Your Conversations Without A Warrant.

The Bush Republicans' Policies Are, The Antithesis Of Patriotic. And So We Urge Democrats To Reclaim Patriotism - To Call On All Americans To Pull Together. And, Yes, To Sacrifice. Rich People Will Have To Do With Fewer Tax Cuts. Middle Class People Will Need To Drive Less And Switch To More Fuel Efficient Cars . And Poor Folks - Especially Young Ones - Will Have To Reduce Out-of-wedlock Pregnancies And Other Indicia Of Social Pathology.

[tea Party Goers Are] Just A Bunch Of Wimpy, Whiny, Weasels Who Don't Love Their Country.