Mark Shields Quotes - Page 4

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• 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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  Moving, Community, Pakistan

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• 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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  Reality, Government, Iraq

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• 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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  Vietnam, Bills, Chance

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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

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Let's not pretend that all of a sudden, this is some new system.

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  "Capital Gang" with Al Hunt, Mark Shields, Robert Novak and Margaret Carlson, edition.cnn.com. May 14, 2005.

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• George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.

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  Noble, John Kerry, Supporter

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• There is always strength in numbers

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  Numbers, Strength In Numbers

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• President [John F.] Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs, said to Turner Catledge of The New York Times: I wish you had written more, I wish you had investigated more, because it might have saved the country of the cataclysm of the Bay of Pigs.

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  Country, New York, Pigs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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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  Thinking, Bridges, Issues

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• You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.

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  "Capital Gang" with Al Hunt, Mark Shields, Robert Novak and Margaret Carlson, edition.cnn.com. May 14, 2005.

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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

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Richard Nixon said it best. It makes no difference whether they hold your nose or whether they go would through a wall to vote for you. It counts the same with the X.

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  Wall, Vote

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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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  Thinking, Ideas, Four

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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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  Strong, Home, America

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• Every Republican candidate in the country is going to be asked whether in a debate or where else, by opponents or by the press, do you consider Donald Trump to be an appropriate role model for the children of our state? And it just - as far as the women's vote reported on in Georgia, it makes it so, not simply difficult. It makes it almost impossible for somebody with self-respect, who has a mother or sister or a daughter, somebody like this in Abraham Lincoln's chair.

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  Daughter, Mother, Country

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Republicans have, with some pride - George W. Bush won the White House by promising to restore dignity to the Oval Office. And they were or presented themselves as the family - the party of family values.

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  Party, Pride, Office

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But the people at home if we're doing a town meeting or a town format. You have to answer the question that is asked. And what people at home are gauging how does this candidate respond to the questioner? Do they show respect to the questioner? Do they try to understand why the questioner is asking that? Do they respond to the question? Is there a human connection between the two? It's where Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney in 2012. He lost the voters on who was a stronger leader, who had a vision for the future, but on who cares about people like me, he trounced Mitt Romney.

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  Home, People, Leader

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Tim Kaine didn't come across authentic. It wasn't good. And it was - it just really - I think, for short-term benefit, I think the Democrats tarnished the brand, which is an awfully good brand.

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  Thinking, Democrat

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.

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  Sports, Two, Elbows

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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

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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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  Party, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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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  Cities, Community, African American

  Source: www.pbs.org

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