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
It's very good for him, ... I wouldn't go so far as to say it locks anything up, though, because people want to make up their own minds.
Back in the 70s I knew people who could recall when Sugar Land was a company town - the company being the Imperial Sugar Company.
I was looking in The New York Times the other day and there was a poll that showed that 31 percent of the people believed that the Democrats had a plan for the country. That's not enough,
I didn't spend a lot of time on national security the American people will be glad to know.
It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.
Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic adviser, if we can't help wealthy investors and screw working people, what's the point in being a Republican?
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.
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.
Politics is show business for ugly people.
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.