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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.
Mark Shields
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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
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Weymouth
Massachusetts
Mark Stephen Shields
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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.
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There's nothing wrong with being organized.Things that change history tend to be organized.
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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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I think this was as good a Democratic Convention [ this was my 24th convention] as I have seen since the 1976 convention, which nominated Jimmy Carter.I just thought it was a spectacularly successful convention. I don't think Hillary Clinton's speech was spectacular, but I don't think she's a spectacular speaker.
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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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I personally believe that [Donald Trump] is wrong on the condition of America.
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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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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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The studies that show the reason Washington real estate is booming and there are so many lobbyists in town, it does pay.
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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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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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Donald Trump has taken over the Republican Party. He's transformed the Republican Party.
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Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is.
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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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Peter Hart, the pollster, has a question when he asks about presidential or vice presidential candidates, what kind of a neighbor would they be? And several Democrats - George W. Bush was always seen to be a good friendly neighbor who would pick up the newspapers if you were out of town or check your mail.
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If you're on the other side from me, you're not simply wrong or ill-informed or mistaken. We don't share the same country, the same values. You may not be the same kind of an American I am.
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