Mark Shields Quotes - Page 6

• The lobbying over China most favored nation trading status was disgusting. There's no way in hell that MFN would have passed in '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, 2000 if all these companies hadn't come in flooding and making campaign contributions and ask for people's support. That drove the debate. Every year was the allure of corporate dollars flooding into members' bank accounts.

  Mark Shields

  Años, Personas, Apoyo

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I saw money change votes.I mean, they just seem unaware of this, that money is something - if they want to see the appearance of corruption, all they had to do was look in Las Vegas last weekend.

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  Mean, Weekend, Vegas

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• The studies that show the reason Washington real estate is booming and there are so many lobbyists in town, it does pay.

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  Real, Lobbyists, Doe

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• The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the money has a big effect.

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  Lobbyists, Subsidies, Pay

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• I'm a little nervous about public funding. It's better than what we got now.

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  Littles, Nervous, Funding

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• Benjamin Netanyahu is no Winston Churchill. Whatever else he, is he's not a Winston Churchill. He basically violated the great rule, which is it's better to mislead the people and to lose an election than to mislead the people and win an election.

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  Ganar, Personas, Elecciones

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• I think that "Arabs coming out in droves" is so violative Jewish values that non-Jews admire so much about Jewish people throughout history, of welcoming the stranger, of standing up for the outsider, of defending the marginalized. This was classic us against them. This was the narrowest and meanest of politics, to which Jews, sadly and tragically, around the world have been subjected to.

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  Thinking, Jewish Values, People

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• I don't think he should make foreign policy on the basis of peak,but I don't think it can be overstated that Israel has been an embattled democracy that has enjoyed the bipartisan and overwhelming support of Americans. It has been a moral force.

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  Thinking, Israel, Support

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• Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a green light, a further green light, after Citizens United, to the biggest money to have the bigger voice in our politics, and to sound out and drown out the voice of just ordinary citizens.

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  Simple, Light, Voice

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

  Mark Shields

  Cities, Flood

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• You really have one bite at the apple.

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  Apples, Bites

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• 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.

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  Country, Mistake, Two

  "David Gergen and Mark Shields on Bill Clinton's 100 Days". "PBS Newshour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 29, 1993.

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• 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.

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  Interesting, Levels, Bills

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• 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.

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  Lonely, Skills, Office

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• 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.

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  People, Scandal, Eras

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• 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 higher marks... The sole exception is on protecting taxes, which is initially his attack.

  Mark Shields

  Jobs, Creating, Care

  "David Gergen and Mark Shields on Bill Clinton's 100 Days". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 29, 1993.

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• I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.

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  Thinking, Tradition, American Values

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• From 1976, Judy to 1996, we had six presidential elections. And it was run under the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1974. In all six of them, every candidate agreed to limits of what he could collect in contributions and what he could spend in seeking a nomination. And they all abided by it.

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  Running, Presidential, Reform

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• Ronald Reagan four times accepted the limits in contributions of what he could take, what he could spend, and the public funding for the general elections. So I just think the idea that it didn't work, and didn't work - it did work. It worked brilliantly.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Four

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• Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.

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  People, Tragedy, Human Trafficking

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• George W. Bush in 2000 went to private financing for the nomination, but he accepted public funding in the general. And, quite frankly, so did - it was broken in 2008, when Barack Obama decided he wasn't going to do that.

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  Broken, Nominations, Accepted

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• La realidad es que los republicanos tuvieron dos veces a Mitt Romney como posible candidato. Lo eligieron en 2008 y 2012. En 2008 y 2012, había sido el más duro con los inmigrantes ilegales, con los inmigrantes indocumentados, ilegales, como él los llamaba, acusó a John McCain de querer darles cheques de la Seguridad Social, acusó a Mike Huckabee de venderles con la Ley DREAM en Arkansas, fue realmente el más estridente.

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  Sueño, Realidad, Dar

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• If Donald Trump does lose, being revealed as this bizarre personality, Ted Cruz is not going to be what Republicans are looking for in 2020.

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  Personality, Doe, Republican

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• I think the Republican Party is cursed. And it's cursed itself.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Thinking, Republican

  "Shields and Brooks on Latino Voters, Last-Minute Election Factors". "Newshour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. November 01, 2012.

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• I think this was as good a Democratic Convention [ this was my 24th convention] as I have seen since the 1976 convention, which nominated Jimmy Carter.I just thought it was a spectacularly successful convention. I don't think Hillary Clinton's speech was spectacular, but I don't think she's a spectacular speaker.

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  Successful, Thinking, Speech

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