Paul Begala Quotes

"Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself."

"I didn't spend a lot of time on national security the American people will be glad to know."

"I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up."

"We won't put the nuclear storage facility in your state unless the science gets better, improves it."

"I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?"

"I used to go in at 5:30 or 6:00 so I could run."

"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."

"See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners."

"But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues - being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives."

"There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals."

"When your mission is to "restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary"

"I don't think it's a lack of ideas; it's coherence."

"You never have a good night's sleep. You never have a peaceful meal. There's this gnawing in your gut. You get peace when you work."

"Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history."

"Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all."

"Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it."

"I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages."

"I grew up in Tom DeLay's district."

"It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things."

"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."