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It doesn't have to be the same line that we have had for the last 40 years, because that clearly isn't working on any level. But you have got to have a pretty clear line on this crucial issue.

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
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Donald Trump has taken over the Republican Party. He's transformed the Republican Party.
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Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing.
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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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The fact is that it's the most dangerous place to be on the political scale is to brand those on the other side as racist. That's the atomic bomb. That's the nuclear weapon of an American.
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This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.
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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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When the party holds the White House, all the political decisions are made in the White House. And being a party chair, you're just an artifact.
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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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You have to understand that Republicans are on lockstep on one issue. They will not raise taxes. Democrats are in lockstep on another issue, pro-choice in all cases on abortion.
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Once I accuse you of racist, I have demonized you, and it means any future collaboration, cooperation between us is a sign of my moral deficiency, if I would deal with someone like that. It's a terrible thing to do.
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It's fine to be an activist, but you're not - if you're not putting up candidates, if you're not getting political, if you're not in your party, then you're probably not going to have long-term change. You will probably dissipate.
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He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.
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The Republicans, they are in the danger of rooting for the country to fail. They look bad that way, I mean, and I want to say to them, cheer up, Republicans. Eventually, things will get worse.
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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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The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.
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Mitt Romney looks like a secretary of state. He looks like the chancellor of the exchequer.
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Mitt Romney was the man who stood up to Donald Trump early, hard, never wavered.
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Something really serious has shifted in the minds of Republicans and certainly others.
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The pattern of American presidential elections is that the more optimistic candidate, whether it's John Kennedy and let's get America moving again, Ronald Reagan, it's morning in America, or Barack Obama, yes, we can, always wins, or nearly always wins.
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I think Donald Trump is not going to be impeached [in a ] month. Let's not close out possibilities.I do think that what's happening is great and that people are active and people are just involved in the democratic process.
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