Bob Beckel

“We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.”

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

“Trump is going to be around a while.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If we have intelligence on the location of terrorist training centers, it is insane not to act.”

“Most federal employees perform their tasks honorably and well.”

“In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.”

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

“Trump has predicated his whole campaign on the unfairness of the playing field. Big corporations, rich donors, big media, and trade deals that punish the little guy.”

“Charter schools are not a panacea.”

“An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures.”

“The fact of the matter, it's that Trump is getting money from blue-collar workers who send him checks for $250. Why? Who is Donald Trump? It's not who he is, it's who he isn't. Not what he is for, what he is against - that is, everything Washington is doing.”

“Always taken Donald Trump seriously. I think people have underestimated him.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Many good journalists have attempted to confront Trump about his many lies and failures, and have failed.”

“Every time I think that political analysts and writers will finally recognize that most of them don't understand much about political polls, they prove me wrong. They don't know how to read them; they don't understand the importance of cross tabs within a given poll, and they don't know how to analyze them.”