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Paul Begala

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Paul Begala is a prominent American political consultant, strategist, and television personality, best known for his role as a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, he has been influential in shaping political discourse and strategy in the United States. Begala has also made a name for himself as a commentator on various news networks, where he provides insights on political issues and campaigns.

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Feb 6, 2018

What President Clinton said is that the world is always more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.

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Jan 16, 2018

The president could easily help almost 700,000 people who deserve to stay here and that all Americans want to stay here, and get a political win. But he can't get out of his own way because he's competent.

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Jan 16, 2018

Whatever happens, the American taxpayers are going to have to pay for it.

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Jan 16, 2018

This is I think -- it's why he's down to 38 percent. He only had 46 percent when he won the election, he's down to 38 percent now.

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Jan 16, 2018

Among Trump voters, 68 percent of Trump voters want to regularize the status of the Dreamers.

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Jan 16, 2018

The late great Mario Cuomo famously said, we campaign in poetry, we govern in prose.

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Jan 3, 2018

My indelible impression of talking to senior Trump advisers and observing them through much of the first year of his presidency is that they all 100% came to believe he was incapable of functioning in his job. This is the crisis we face…

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Jan 3, 2018

What's different here is this isn't about policies. Nobody is saying the President should move left or right or sign this trade bill or veto that bill, they're all saying he's unfit to serve.

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Jan 3, 2018

He'll have to defend his reporting, but this does jibe with everyone else's reporting.

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Jan 3, 2018

When I worked in the White House, if I want Janet Reno, the attorney general, to come to a press conference, I went to the White House Counsel's office.

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Jan 3, 2018

The White House must never reach out to the attorney general to try to pressure him.

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Jan 3, 2018

That's simply not true. Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, all met with the Russians with the stated intent of gaining from the Russian government as they were told in e-mails, dirt on Hillary Clinton.

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