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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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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
Columnist
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Weymouth
Massachusetts
Mark Stephen Shields
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The final thing the Tea Party had was, they fed into the philosophy that Donald Trump now embodies. So they had a different view of how the world should be governed. And so they had a lot of things that we didn't appreciate going for them as time went by.
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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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John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush.
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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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America is Republican until 5:00 or 6:00 at night.
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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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Donald Trump has taken over the Republican Party. He's transformed the Republican Party.
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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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When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
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I don't hear any clear, coherent message [from Democrats]. I mean, when you're a party out of power, it's the time to be a national party chair.
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Donald Trump manages to personalize everything. He brings chaos. He will not admit that he's ever made a mistake, that he's ever been wrong.
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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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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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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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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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You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.
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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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Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.
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90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.
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Donald Trump is not an unintelligent man.
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