Mark Shields Quotes (37 Quotes)


    These initiatives are designed to improve the quality of life of the residents and give them the confidence to go about their lawful business without fear of being shot at or otherwise being intimidated by armed criminals.

    John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

    They will be drawn from the existing homicide teams and from the divisions. We will be looking for first class investigators, who have a proven good investigative track record and, above all, professionalism and integrity.

    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 are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.

    Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.


    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.

    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!

    Due to the vast quantity of material, it will take some time to review them all, but so far we have observed no celebrities, no politicians, no senior police officers, members of the clergy, or sporting figures on any of the images.

    He became almost a parody of himself, if you recall that black hat he wore in Arizona while brandishing the assault weapon.

    As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

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

    The establishment of the task force is in fact an extension of the highly successful formula we have used in Operation Kingfish and elsewhere in the world.

    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 was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.

    You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.

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

    Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

    More and more young people are coming out because in the past 10 years especially we've seen a growth in positive gay role models, from Ellen DeGeneres to TV shows like 'Will and Grace' to openly gay public officials. Youth are seeing that you can be out and be a healthy, happy citizen.

    There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.

    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.

    Let's not pretend that all of a sudden, this is some new system.

    There is definitely a certain proportion of this population for whom the only way to deal with humiliation - the only way to regain respect - is through violence. This is a place where many people don't look for ways to resolve a dispute. They take all matters to the very bitter end.

    A generation or two ago, the Republicans were the pro-choice party and the Democrats were considered the pro-life party.

    The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

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

    What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.

    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, how grateful they are.

    .He is quite clearly connected with the dead man's (Hope) past, but we are keeping an open mind on the cause of the killing.

    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 was the highest in our nation's history.

    The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.

    George Bush is trying to play it both ways.

    It's going to be whoever runs the hardest each night.


    Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.

    When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

    I am more optimistic than most we can achieve change. True. I have not been here to see 30 years of deterioration - but I know there are proven police mechanisms, and that when put in place, things will get better.

    John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.


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