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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.

Mark Shields

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
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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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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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John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush.
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Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing.
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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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Mitt Romney looks like a president. I mean, he really does.
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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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[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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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.
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The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.
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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.
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Critics of Donald Trump take him literally, but not seriously. His supporters take him seriously, but not literally.
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The person you're choosing is going to be 90 feet down the hall for four years. That's a pretty intimate and close relationship, and it better be somebody you're comfortable with, you like, you trust, you look forward to seeing, not someone you're coming up with creative ideas on how to avoid.
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There is a cleavage and a divide in America like I have never seen before.
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America is Republican until 5:00 or 6:00 at night.
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I personally believe that [Donald Trump] is wrong on the condition of America.
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The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.
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Tim Kaine kind of gives the warmer, human face of the Democrats.
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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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Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.
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