Mark Shields Quotes - Page 6

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• The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's always outside agitators doing it.

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  War, Rights, Movement

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• I don't hear any clear, coherent message [from Democrats]. I mean, when you're a party out of power, it's the time to be a national party chair.

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  Party, Mean, Messages

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• When the party holds the White House, all the political decisions are made in the White House. And being a party chair, you're just an artifact.

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  Party, White, House

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• [Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, who has given obnoxiousness a new definition in his personal behavior, oftentimes in his dealings with the press, had a very good point.

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  Winning, Ideas, Chicago

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• The Democrats have to do what he did when [Rahm Emanuel] was chairman of the Democratic House Campaign Committee, recruit veterans, recruit football players, recruit business people. And I think that's what the job of the new party chair has to be.

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  Football, Jobs, Party

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• Franklin Roosevelt ran on a balanced budget in 1932, and the greatest president, certainly, of the 20th century. So the idea that you lay out a predicate right now, Donald Trump has recreated the Republican Party in his image.

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  Party, Ideas, President

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• [Donald Trump] stood up and he said, you finally have a president, you finally have a president. I am the future.And what did he get? Hosannas and huzzahs and genuflection. It was a total takeover of the conservative movement.

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  President, Movement, Conservative

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• [Donald] Trump, he - you know, buy American, buy American, anti-free trade, and got big cheers. They're waving Russian flags, probably partly as a joke. But, still, the party has become an ethnic nationalist party.

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  Cheer, Party, Flags

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• I mean, this is a group [Republicans], don't forget, that gave its presidential straw ballot to Ron Paul, Ron Paul, and Rand Paul and Rand Paul. So, they have abandoned what - their libertarian values and instincts to embrace [Donald] Trump.

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  Mean, Presidential, Libertarian

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• I thought what Steve Bannon said was probably more chilling or more threatening than anything the president [Donald Trump]says, I mean, because he said, it's a constant day. We have to defeat the press.

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  Mean, President, Chill

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• The strength of Donald Trump as a candidate - and I'm not in any way defending moral convictions or anything of the sort - was that he says what he means, you know where he stands.

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  Mean, Moral, Conviction

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• The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

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  Thinking, Scandal, Shame

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• The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the money has a big effect.

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  Lobbyists, Subsidies, Pay

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• The Sheldon Adelsons, the Koch brothers, the George Soroses, what we want to try to do is force them into the parties, not so that Kasich or whoever is going to straight to them and trying to kiss up to special interests, but so the parties have the power and they can direct the money.

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  Brother, Party, Kissing

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• They're still a subject beholden to special interests, but at least they have a national constituency. At least they have to think about national majorities.

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  Thinking, Special, Majority

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• I'm a little nervous about public funding. It's better than what we got now.

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  Littles, Nervous, Funding

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• Benjamin Netanyahu is no Winston Churchill. Whatever else he, is he's not a Winston Churchill. He basically violated the great rule, which is it's better to mislead the people and to lose an election than to mislead the people and win an election.

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  Winning, People, Election

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• I think that "Arabs coming out in droves" is so violative Jewish values that non-Jews admire so much about Jewish people throughout history, of welcoming the stranger, of standing up for the outsider, of defending the marginalized. This was classic us against them. This was the narrowest and meanest of politics, to which Jews, sadly and tragically, around the world have been subjected to.

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  Thinking, Jewish Values, People

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• From 1976, Judy to 1996, we had six presidential elections. And it was run under the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1974. In all six of them, every candidate agreed to limits of what he could collect in contributions and what he could spend in seeking a nomination. And they all abided by it.

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  Running, Presidential, Reform

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• Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.

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  People, Tragedy, Human Trafficking

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• The Democrats are standing on one side, and the Republicans are playing games on the other. Both sides are playing games.

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  Playing Games, Sides, Republican

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• The person you're choosing is going to be 90 feet down the hall for four years. That's a pretty intimate and close relationship, and it better be somebody you're comfortable with, you like, you trust, you look forward to seeing, not someone you're coming up with creative ideas on how to avoid.

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  Ideas, Feet, Years

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• I think that the people that are publicly on Hillary Clinton's short list all are very congenial people. They're not people with personality or Captain Queeg problems.

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  Thinking, People, Personality

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• I personally believe that [Donald Trump] is wrong on the condition of America.

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  Believe, America, Trump

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• I don't think he should make foreign policy on the basis of peak,but I don't think it can be overstated that Israel has been an embattled democracy that has enjoyed the bipartisan and overwhelming support of Americans. It has been a moral force.

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  Thinking, Israel, Support

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