Mark Shields Quotes - Page 5

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• Donald Trump is sounding the same theme he has sounded since May or June of 2015.

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  June, May, Trump

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• The problem is that what Donald Trump said, if you take it literally now, is cause for anxiety and nervousness.

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  Anxiety, Causes, Problem

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• 90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.

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  School, Emphasis, Charter

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• I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

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  Children, School, Responsibility

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• American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

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  School, Quality, Determined

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• The charter school is a possibility, an alternative in certain circumstances, but not in most, and not in most places, and not - most parents don't have either the time, the inclination or the aptitude to sit and go through sifting what school and what is available and what the options are.

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  School, Parent, Alternatives

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• Presidential trust is something, that's perishable and it's precious. And once a president loses it, it's not a question of whether it's conflict of interests laws or there aren't conflict of interests laws.

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  Law, Presidential, Conflict

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• The president has to have the trust, earn the trust, maintain the trust of people in order to lead. And there's nothing that will lose it quicker than a sense that he's in it for a quick buck.

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  Order, People, President

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• Donadld Trump loves loyalty.

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  Loyalty, Trump, Loyalty Love

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• Russia today is nothing but a propaganda arm.

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  Russia, Arms, Today

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• Donald Trump, I hate to tell people who are concerned about it, is not going to be impeached. The American people believe in giving somebody a fair chance. He's a new president. There have been troubles, there have been problems.

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  Hate, Believe, People

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• [Donald] Trump is instructive.For Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.

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  Order, People, World

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• [Hillary] Clinton is much more embracing of the global economy and the international world order. [Ben] Sanders and [Scott] Warren are much less so.

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  Order, World, Economy

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• Franklin Roosevelt had a pretty clear line. Ronald Reagan had a pretty clear line, people who rescue parties.

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  Party, People, Lines

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• Basically, global capitalism, basically to support it, or is it to be opposed? Is international order to be supported, or is it to be opposed? Republicans have taken a very clear line.

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  Taken, Order, Support

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• Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace and activism, and we're the party that's going to have a civilized capitalism.

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  Party, Different, Lines

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• Lee Atwater,[Ronald] Reagan's strategist, had no patience for CPAC, because he thought they were sort of wild and immature, basically.

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  Immature, No Patience, Strategist

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• It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.

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  Identity Politics, Interesting, Style

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• The single worst campaign slogan I have ever heard, is Hillary's Clinton, "I'm with her," it means nothing. It absolutely means nothing to anybody. I mean, it's about appealing - and it says nothing about anybody's life, about the country.

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  Country, Mean, Clinton

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• I think the Democrats did a terrible disservice, the Hillary Clinton campaign did, to Tim Kaine. Tim Kaine had the earned reputation of being one of the most respected and well-liked, and not cheap partisan members of the United States Senate. And they turned him into an attack dog.

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  Dog, Thinking, Reputation

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• Russia is a country that has supported, propped up the worst of anti-democratic regimes in the Middle East, that has practiced - mistreated its own press, mistreated its own civil society, and economic intimidation of its neighbors, including invasion of its neighbors.I mean, this is the one country on the face of the earth with the capacity to obliterate the United States.

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  Country, Mean, Earth

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• The problem is that every study I'm aware of, which is probably not that many, has indicated that a dollar spent in preparation and avoidance of natural disasters is worth $15 that is spent in relief. But there's no political payoff for preparation. So, who benefits? I mean, the governor or senator or the president? Bill Clinton at Oklahoma City, his performance there helped him enormously. And there really hasn't been any regulation that would, in fact, interfere with environmental disaster.

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  Mean, Political, Preparation

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• To me, the fundamental thing - well, I guess I see a lot of people debating in the wrong way. A lot of the debate is, should we go to the coasts, should we go to the center, should we go to the left, should we go to the right?

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  People, Fundamentals, Way

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• I do think what the Tea Party also had was Obamacare and the unpopularity of that, at least at the time. And so whether there is something that is equally unpopular and equally galvanizing that is almost self-destructive from the administration, that's another factor that we will wait and see.

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  Party, Thinking, Self

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• Kevin McCarthy, who is the House majority leader, was pretty open. He went out and recruited candidates. And the Republicans in the House have paid a price for it ever since, because they cannot pass anything comprehensive or real because of the Freedom Caucus, which is the child, the product, the progeny of the Tea Party.

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  Children, Real, Party

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