Quote

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.

Mark Shields

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
Columnist
Writer
Weymouth
Massachusetts
Mark Stephen Shields
Money
Effect
Taxes
Loopholes
Terms
Lobbyists
Effects
Subsidies
Pay
Pays
Rest
Invest
Term
Corporations
Bigs
Clearly

More quotes by Mark Shields

Image
Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are.
Mark Shields
Image
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.
Mark Shields
Image
[Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, who has given obnoxiousness a new definition in his personal behavior, oftentimes in his dealings with the press, had a very good point.
Mark Shields
Image
Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is.
Mark Shields
Image
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
Image
Donald Trump is an independent presidential candidate who ran on the Republican label. He really did. He took it over. He transformed it into his image, in his likeness.
Mark Shields
Image
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.
Mark Shields
Image
Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.
Mark Shields
Image
America is Republican until 5:00 or 6:00 at night.
Mark Shields
Image
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.
Mark Shields
Image
I think she [Hillary Clinton] would be far superior to President [Barack] Obama, who is basically remote, aloof and not involved with - he doesn't deal with members of Congress.
Mark Shields
Image
[Donald] Trump is instructive.For Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.
Mark Shields
Image
The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.
Mark Shields
Image
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.
Mark Shields
Image
American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.
Mark Shields
Image
There is always strength in numbers
Mark Shields
Image
There is a cleavage and a divide in America like I have never seen before.
Mark Shields
Image
Basically, global capitalism, basically to support it, or is it to be opposed? Is international order to be supported, or is it to be opposed? Republicans have taken a very clear line.
Mark Shields
Image
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.
Mark Shields
Image
As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve there was a chance not to serve.
Mark Shields