Top 76 Mark Shields Quotes
#1. Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.
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#2. There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.
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#3. Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of these standards, Bill Clinton has considerably high marks. The sole exception is on protecting taxes, which is initially his attack.
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#4. Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money.
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#5. The Republicans, they are in the danger of rooting for the country to fail. They look bad that way, I mean, and I want to say to them, cheer up, Republicans. Eventually, things will get worse.
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#6. At a time when the public is sour on politicians, have no use for them, Bill Clinton has risen to a different level. Bill Clinton is endlessly interesting.
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#7. You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.
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#8. 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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#9. If an abduction is reported, it is dealt with in the same way as a kidnap.
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#10. If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.
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#11. Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.
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#12. There is no tougher job in America than being a cop on the beat in a major city in this country, big and brawling.
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#13. 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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#14. Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!
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#15. George Bush is trying to play it both ways.
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#16. The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.
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#17. Donald Trump is writing a different theme, which is it's midnight in America and that things are bad, and they're bleak, and they're gloomy and they're doomy, and the only thing that is going to save you is someone with the authority and power of somebody like me.
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#18. When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
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#19. You have to understand that Republicans are on lockstep on one issue. They will not raise taxes. Democrats are in lockstep on another issue, pro-choice in all cases on abortion.
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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. [In politics] when A goes after B and there's a C, and D and a Q all lined up there, you have no idea who's going to be the beneficiary.
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#23. The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
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#24. There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.
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#25. I'm a little nervous about public funding. It's better than what we got now.
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#26. I have my disagreements with President Obama, but President Obama has run an amazingly scandal-free administration, not only he himself, but the people around him. He's chosen people who have been pretty scandal-free.
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#27. People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity.
Mark Ruffalo
#28. 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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#29. Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.
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#30. Ronald Reagan four times accepted the limits in contributions of what he could take, what he could spend, and the public funding for the general elections. So I just think the idea that it didn't work, and didn't work - it did work. It worked brilliantly.
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#31. Politics, they all - talked to the insiders.
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#32. There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.
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#33. I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.
David Brooks
#34. The way to solve all the money in politics is not to pretend we can get money out of politics. That will never happen. We have to channel it in ways where we can see it and hold it accountable. And I think the parties are the best vehicle for that.
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#35. I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.
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#36. Democrats, if they're smart and they're not brain-dead, are doing two things right now.They're having self-deprecating humor written for them. There was no humor in Cleveland. And they are not making this a Donald Trump.
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#37. Hillary Clinton has emphasized that she is afflicted with or possessed of the responsibility gene.
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#38. I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.
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#39. If Donald Trump does lose, being revealed as this bizarre personality, Ted Cruz is not going to be what Republicans are looking for in 2020.
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#42. Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.
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#43. He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.
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#44. The economy of the United States gross domestic product doubled from 1996 to 2015, doubled, more than, $8.8 trillion to $17.1 trillion. And the median household income went down.
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#45. John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.
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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. The studies that show the reason Washington real estate is booming and there are so many lobbyists in town, it does pay.
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#49. As long as Republicans won't - won't raise taxes and as long as Democrats won't in any way make entitlements based on need, rather than just across the board, I really think that we're doomed to this deadlock.
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#50. John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush.
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#51. When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.
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#52. 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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#53. My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination of the leadership to protect the institution, rather than the children.
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#54. Dan Coats, retiring senator from Indiana, a mild-mannered man, a former United States ambassador to Germany, former congressman, said of Ted Cruz he's the most self-centered, narcissistic, pathological liar I have ever seen.And he said, you can quote me on that.
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#55. Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.
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#56. John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.
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#57. Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.
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#58. In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.
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#59. There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.
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#60. I saw money change votes.I mean, they just seem unaware of this, that money is something - if they want to see the appearance of corruption, all they had to do was look in Las Vegas last weekend.
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#61. Whether it's her [ Hillary Clinton] guarded privacy or whatever else, I mean, there has got to be some sense that this is a human being that I can identify.
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#62. I didn't realize the president was such an historian.
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#63. You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.
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#64. I am struck the whole litany of people, especially of that era, who were involved in some scandal or another. Some of it was sexual. Some of it was more financial. And it was just all concentrated in a lot of people all at once.
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#65. There are people who know Hillary Clinton who tell wonderful stories about her, how likable she is, how funny she is; 99 percent of American people don't - have never seen that side of her.
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#66. As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.
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#67. 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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#68. Sometimes, you just let the country have its way, and you don't try to determine the shape of the country. You sort of modestly step back and let the country figure out what it believes.
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#69. We have weakened the parties and strengthened all the special interests.
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#70. Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.
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#71. What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.
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#72. Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.
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#73. Let's not pretend that all of a sudden, this is some new system.
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#74. 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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#75. George W. Bush in 2000 went to private financing for the nomination, but he accepted public funding in the general. And, quite frankly, so did - it was broken in 2008, when Barack Obama decided he wasn't going to do that.
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#76. George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.
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