Paul Begala
Paul Begala
Paul Edward Begalais 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 twelve years. As counselor to the President in the Clinton White House, he coordinated policy, politics, and communications...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth12 May 1961
CountryUnited States of America
When all you had to do was punch a hole in the ground and strike oil, it was easy to have the highest high school dropout rate. But you can't drop out and invent a new microchip. Texas is changing, but the constant is hatred of government, and that's a mistake in the 21st century.
It was a huge fireball, a huge, orange fireball.
Texas is the nearest thing to heaven there is. We love our state but we are embarrassed by our weak government. We ignore 400,000 souls in Third World conditions with no electricity and no running water. We pay our teachers less than our football coaches, and we get the results you'd expect.
My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him.
Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.
I used to go in at 5:30 or 6:00 so I could run.
I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages.
One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.
There's nothing the Democrats would like more. He's terribly bright, but he's more far right than he is bright. He's become the embodiment of what most Americans hate about right wingers.
I don't think it's a lack of ideas; it's coherence.
no one will wake up Nov. 8 and not know what they were getting.
We knew he was in the oil business; we didn't know it was snake oil.
Tonight, we sheathe our swords and join hands and work together to solve our nation's most difficult problems,
When a White House is under siege, no one wants to talk to anyone. Literally, anything you say can and will be used against you. When you're in a meeting and you see one of your colleagues taking notes, you start to wonder how long it will be before you're interrogated based on her notes. Maybe she's doodling. Or maybe she's digging your grave. The mind tries to focus on the task at hand, but the grand jury is never far from your thoughts.