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The president has to have the trust, earn the trust, maintain the trust of people in order to lead. And there's nothing that will lose it quicker than a sense that he's in it for a quick buck.

Mark Shields

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
Columnist
Writer
Weymouth
Massachusetts
Mark Stephen Shields
Sense
Earn
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Quick
Nothing
Maintain
People
Lead
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Trust
Buck
Loses
Quicker
President
Bucks

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