Bob Beckel

As a survivor, you learn how to talk fast, cut deals, lie when you have to - perfect training to be a politician, you know? ”

The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony. ”

If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off. ”

In the 1990s, the Democratic Party began to cozy up to their long-time enemies: Wall Street Bankers. They took their money and relaxed their regulations until the Great Recession forced the Democrats via Dodd-Frank to re-regulate the banks. ”

The hardest-hit taxpayers in our disgraceful tax system are those folks who pack Trump's rallies, especially in hard-hit Rust Belt states like Ohio and Michigan. ”

Congress votes for things the military doesn't want, and planes and other weaponry that cost a lot but don't work. ”

Politicos talk a big game about bringing jobs to devastated cities like Detroit, but rarely succeed. ”

Too many younger people seem to prefer following celebrities instead of doing the work required to get an education that will someday lead to a job. If students today spent as much time on math and science and history as they do following these shallow celebrities, they might actually become contributors to society someday. ”

Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis had enormous talent, and Elvis was the major contributor to an entirely new genre of music. Sometimes their exploits were distasteful to people, but they left behind an enormous body of work that endures. ”

It is Trump who plays with the tax code to pay no taxes; it is Trump whose Trump-brand products are made overseas by cheap labor; it is Trump who hires undocumented workers from Poland to work on his projects, then refuses to pay them minimum wages. ”