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There's nothing wrong with being organized.Things that change history tend to be organized.

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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 Democratic Party is a coalition. Its strength and its weakness is, it's a coalition of interest groups, caucuses. It's a lot less homogeneous than the Republican Party, where people tend to believe the same things and oftentimes look alike.
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Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.
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When you think of pristine preservation of America, you immediately think of Tulsa and Oklahoma.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Russia today is nothing but a propaganda arm.
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Mitt Romney looks like a secretary of state. He looks like the chancellor of the exchequer.
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Donald Trump is writing a different theme, which is it's midnight in America and that things are bad, and they're bleak, and they're gloomy and they're doomy, and the only thing that is going to save you is someone with the authority and power of somebody like me.
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Donadld Trump loves loyalty.
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It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.
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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.
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America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at the border.
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Mitt Romney looks like a president. I mean, he really does.
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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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He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.
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There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.
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