103 Quotes by Bob Beckel

In 1984, I managed Walter Mondale's campaign for president. Mondale won the nomination after a bruising battle with Colorado Senator Gary Hart and Reverend Jesse Jackson.

Where most politicians would have abandoned a supporter like Jeremiah Wright and the community he served, Obama, while strongly criticizing him, did not throw his friend overboard.

Anger in the black community towards Republicans is established and immutable.

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

Iran would have become a nuclear power had President Obama not united most of the world in boycotting Iranian oil sales, which crippled Iran's economy and forced it to negotiate. Other presidents tried to stop Iran's nuclear program. They failed. Obama succeeded.

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.

I do oppose repealing Obamacare, because it's working for growing numbers of previously uninsured Americans.

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

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