Political Quotes

Paul Begala

The Public Record

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.

Quotes by year · 200320251,673 total · peak 2017 (214)
2003: 4 quotes2004: 177 quotes2005: 10 quotes2006: 15 quotes2007: 30 quotes2008: 87 quotes2009: 106 quotes2010: 192 quotes2011: 153 quotes2012: 165 quotes2013: 36 quotes2014: 12 quotes2015: 65 quotes2016: 147 quotes2017: 214 quotes2018: 111 quotes2019: 46 quotes2020: 25 quotes2021: 18 quotes2022: 5 quotes2023: 13 quotes2024: 32 quotes2025: 10 quotes
May 15, 2012

My Republican friends just don't have credibility talking about debt.

transcripts.cnn.com
May 15, 2012

I think -- first, let me just say, John Boehner's a patriotic American, he's a good man, he's a good congressman. He leads his party ably. But what he is proposing is to purposefully damage our country, to take the full faith and credit of…

transcripts.cnn.com
May 15, 2012

And for Speaker Boehner to say we're going to risk the full faith and credit of the United States, it's just something you should never mess around with.

transcripts.cnn.com
May 15, 2012

I think that Speaker Boehner is a good person, but I think what he is doing here is really dangerous.

transcripts.cnn.com
May 15, 2012

The debt ceiling has been raised for 95 years. We used to not have a debt ceiling, and there's no real need to have it.

transcripts.cnn.com
May 9, 2012

He wants to reinstate don't ask/don't tell, which was a discriminatory policy.

transcripts.cnn.com
May 9, 2012

He wants to change our most precious founding document to write discrimination into it.

transcripts.cnn.com
May 9, 2012

Governor Romney wants to kick people out of the military because they're gay.

transcripts.cnn.com
May 8, 2012

The president wasn't reading talking points, he wasn't reading a teleprompter, he wasn't repeating cliches.

transcripts.cnn.com
May 8, 2012

I think the worst thing a president can do is vacillate and he has been vacillating on this for quite some time. Now he's taken a strong position.

transcripts.cnn.com

Politicians like Paul Begala