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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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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
Columnist
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Weymouth
Massachusetts
Mark Stephen Shields
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Democracy
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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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When you think of pristine preservation of America, you immediately think of Tulsa and Oklahoma.
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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.
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If an abduction is reported, it is dealt with in the same way as a kidnap.
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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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