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“There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.”
-- Mark Shields

#Numbers #Organization #Causes
“In the past, in order to continue as a candidate, a serious candidate, you had to be in the top three finishes in Iowa. You had to be in the top two out of New Hampshire. All our presidents elected in the past half-century finished either first or second in New Hampshire and in the top three in Iowa. That changed with the Citizens United, when we gave unlimited amounts of money.”
-- Mark Shields

#Past #Order #Iowa
“[In politics] when A goes after B and there's a C, and D and a Q all lined up there, you have no idea who's going to be the beneficiary.”
-- Mark Shields

#Ideas #Beneficiaries
“There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.”
-- Mark Shields

#Cities #Community #African American
“My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination of the leadership to protect the institution, rather than the children.”
-- Mark Shields

#Hurt #Children #Arrogance
“Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.”
-- Mark Shields

#Sports #Two #Elbows
“I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.”
-- Mark Shields

#Thinking #Tradition #American Values
“Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of these standards, Bill Clinton has considerably high marks. The sole exception is on protecting taxes, which is initially his attack.”
-- Mark Shields

#Jobs #Creating #Care
“At a time when the public is sour on politicians, have no use for them, Bill Clinton has risen to a different level. Bill Clinton is endlessly interesting.”
-- Mark Shields

#Interesting #Use #Levels
“Clinton's major problem, and the two aren't separable really because there is hope in the country, the hope - - optimism has slipped dramatically, make no mistake about every measurement shows that. But the hope is still there. Hope is with him. People want change. They see him as the best chance for change.”
-- Mark Shields

#Country #Mistake #Two
“You really have one bite at the apple.”
-- Mark Shields

#Apples
“He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.”
-- Mark Shields

#Feet #Speak #Stirrups
“The people who are rising, they're super ambitious. They have relationships with people above them. They have relationships, hierarchical, sort of people below them. A lot of people do not have relationships horizontally. And there's a lot of people who reach high political offices, but who are weirdly lonely, weirdly lacking in intimacy skills.”
-- Mark Shields

#Lonely #Skills #Office
“I have my disagreements with President Obama, but President Obama has run an amazingly scandal-free administration, not only he himself, but the people around him. He's chosen people who have been pretty scandal-free.”
-- Mark Shields

#Running #People #President
“I am struck the whole litany of people, especially of that era, who were involved in some scandal or another. Some of it was sexual. Some of it was more financial. And it was just all concentrated in a lot of people all at once.”
-- Mark Shields

#People #Scandal #Eras
“Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money.”
-- Mark Shields

#Cities #Flood
“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 household income went down.”
-- Mark Shields

#Income #United States #Economy
“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 embarrassment.”
-- Mark Shields

#Thinking #Scandal #Shame
“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 the power of our example than the example of our power.”
-- Mark Shields

#Strong #Home #America
“Let's not pretend that all of a sudden, this is some new system.”
-- Mark Shields
“The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.”
-- Mark Shields

#Moving #Community #Emergencies
“If an abduction is reported, it is dealt with in the same way as a kidnap.”
-- Mark Shields

#Way #Abduction
“You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.”
-- Mark Shields
“Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.”
-- Mark Shields

#Character #Destiny #Important
“You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.”
-- Mark Shields

#People #Boat #John Kerry
“The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.”
-- Mark Shields

#Campaigns #Problem
“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 it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!”
-- Mark Shields

#Reality #Iraq #Government
“As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.”
-- Mark Shields

#Vietnam #Bills #Chance
“Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.”
-- Mark Shields

#Boat #John Kerry #Command
“John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.”
-- Mark Shields

#South Carolina #Carolina #Mccain

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