Mark Shields Quotes

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• There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.

  Mark Shields

  Organization, Numbers, Causes

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• George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.

  Mark Shields

  Lying, President, Telling The Truth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Drones are sort of the perfect weapon for a country that doesn't want to go to war. It only - there's no fingerprint. There's no direct involvement. There's human beings killed on the other end. You never see them. You don't have to worry about them. You don't have to meet their widows. It's sort of an antiseptic warfare.

  Mark Shields

  Country, War, Perfect

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I thought Mike Pence, upon reflection to me, came across a little bit like your favorite aunt who refuses, in spite of first-person evidence that grandpa has been drunk and disorderly in public, that, says, no, no, grandpa would never do that, even though grandpa is being taken off in handcuffs.

  Mark Shields

  Taken, Aunt, Reflection

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.

  Mark Shields

  Gay, College, White

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• When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.

  Mark Shields

  Military, Assault Weapons, Style

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• I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Moral, Embarrassment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

  Mark Shields

  Progress, Littles, Add

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.

  Mark Shields

  Principles, United States, Unions

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's nothing wrong with being organized.Things that change history tend to be organized.

  Mark Shields

  Organized

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Gone is any mention of American exceptionalism. I happen to believe that twice, three times in the 20th century, the United States saved Western democracy, both World War - both World Wars and the Cold War.

  Mark Shields

  War, Believe, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.

  Mark Shields

  Leader, Political, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Mark Shields

  United States, Income, Economy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Mark Shields

  Issues, Choices, Abortion

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We had the clip of [Donald] Trump saying: I'm not president of the globe. I'm president of the United States.[Ronald] Reagan would have never said that. [Dwight] Eisenhower would have never said that, because he would have said, yes, I'm president of the United States, but it's in our interests to be securing a world order.

  Mark Shields

  Order, President, Dwight Eisenhower

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

  Mark Shields

  Class, White, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.

  Mark Shields

  Sea, Boat, John Kerry

  "Shields and Kristol Discuss Kerry’s War Record". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. August 20, 2004.

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• 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.

  Mark Shields

  People, Boat, John Kerry

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• I believe devoutly that the national election is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament of democracy. And I really do think that heed must be paid, and when people make a decision, those who are on the other side, including me, accept it, for that reason.

  Mark Shields

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do think that Republicans are flirting with their tax cut, which has always been the narcotic of Republicans, that they in fact have to at some point, with any remote pretense of candor, abandon any pretense of a balanced budget.I mean, they talk about - because they are going to finance the tax cut by tax cuts. That's how they're going to do it. And I do think that the will is there right now in the Congress to act. I think they will be as close to unity as you will see on Capitol Hill this year.

  Mark Shields

  Mean, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance.

  Mark Shields

  Russia, Alliances, Putin

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The White House, as Warren Harding said, and I think accurately, is an alchemist. We find out the strengths, the weaknesses and the smarts and the dumbs of whoever those occupants are under the pressure of the presidency.

  Mark Shields

  Smart, Thinking, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Mark Shields

  Liars, Men, Self

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

  Mark Shields

  Campaigns, Smear Campaigns, Problem

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• 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.

  Mark Shields

  Running, People, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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