Mark Shields

There is always strength in numbers

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I didn't realize the president was such an historian.

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Donadld Trump loves loyalty.

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John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

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America is Republican until 5:00 or 6:00 at night.

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[Dwight Eisenhower was ] a citizen of the world.

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Russia today is nothing but a propaganda arm.

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Donald Trump is not an unintelligent man.

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Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.

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If Mitt Romney had got the percentage Ronald Reagan did of Hispanics, he would have defeated Barack Obama.

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Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has.

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Donald Trump picked a remarkably nice guy in Mike Pence.

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George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.

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John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

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Donald Trump defies gravity. And so I guess he has to be Donald Trump. It's gotten him so far.

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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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The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's…

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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…

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The Republicans have, with some pride - George W. Bush won the White House by promising to restore dignity to the Oval…

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I do think, over the last years, a lot of Republicans have decided it's not working, what the party believed in, free…

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George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the…

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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…

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What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to…

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Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is.

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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…

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The Tea Party thing is only apt in some ways. The activism in the town halls, that looks superficially like it. But…

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[Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel,…

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Barack Obama did get a higher percentage of the vote than anybody has in this country in 20 years. I mean, it…

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Donald Trump, I hate to tell people who are concerned about it, is not going to be impeached. The American people believe…

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There is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a…

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The other thing that has changed - and this is more detailed to CPAC than the general Republican Party - is they…

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I do think what the Tea Party also had was Obamacare and the unpopularity of that, at least at the time. And…

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But take the Russia issue. You open up the convention, and you have got a report that the Democratic Party has been…

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The problem is that every study I'm aware of, which is probably not that many, has indicated that a dollar spent in…

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But the people at home if we're doing a town meeting or a town format. You have to answer the question that…

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I do think that Republicans are flirting with their tax cut, which has always been the narcotic of Republicans, that they in…

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Every Republican candidate in the country is going to be asked whether in a debate or where else, by opponents or by…

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The Democrats are now an upscale party.

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Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money.

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You really have one bite at the apple.

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