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Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
Columnist
Writer
Weymouth
Massachusetts
Mark Stephen Shields
American
Character
Important
Campaigns
Destiny

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There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.
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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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Hillary Clinton should get a bounce out of her convention, I mean a bounce in the polls. I think it's probably conceded that Donald Trump got about a three-point bounce out of his conventions. He's closed the gap that much.
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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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Mitt Romney looks like a president. I mean, he really does.
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Immigrants have been the sustenance and the survival and the treasure of America.
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I think Hillary Clinton - first of all, it's a great victory, acknowledge it. She has made history.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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There is always strength in numbers
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That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign.
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If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.
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Donald Trump is sounding the same theme he has sounded since May or June of 2015.
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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.
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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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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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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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