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[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.
Mark Shields
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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
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Mark Stephen Shields
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Donald Trump is not an unintelligent man.
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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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Tim Kaine kind of gives the warmer, human face of the Democrats.
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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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That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. And denying access, as Sean Spicer did , is the first step toward a dictatorship.
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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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I think Hillary Clinton - first of all, it's a great victory, acknowledge it. She has made 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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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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It's fine to be an activist, but you're not - if you're not putting up candidates, if you're not getting political, if you're not in your party, then you're probably not going to have long-term change. You will probably dissipate.
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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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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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[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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Immigrants have been the sustenance and the survival and the treasure of America.
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