Mark Shields

Journalist

1937-05-25

Quotes by Mark Shields

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.

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