Mark Shields Quotes

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• The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
• Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about…
• As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.
• Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.
• Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.
• George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.
• 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…
• In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns…
• If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which…
• John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.
• Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.
• John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush.
• When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them,…
• When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
• John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.
• Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been more impressed by…
• If an abduction is reported, it is dealt with in the same way as a kidnap.
• The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national…
• The economy of the United States gross domestic product doubled from 1996 to 2015, doubled, more than, $8.8 trillion to $17.1 trillion. And the median…
• Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money.

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