The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The Democrats have an economic message that is directed at people at the lower end. That has been their cornerstone. The Republicans… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
[The Republicans] looked at basically the failed wars and they said, oh, this, us being the policeman of the world, that is… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The Democrats are standing on one side, and the Republicans are playing games on the other. Both sides are playing games. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I don't hear any clear, coherent message [from Democrats]. I mean, when you're a party out of power, it's the time to… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Gone is any mention of American exceptionalism. I happen to believe that twice, three times in the 20th century, the United States… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The Republicans, they are in the danger of rooting for the country to fail. They look bad that way, I mean, and… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I think Democrats ought to be concerned, that the party has become almost prideful about the college-educated vote that it's getting, the… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Democrats, if they're smart and they're not brain-dead, are doing two things right now.They're having self-deprecating humor written for them. There was… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
All about midterm elections is turnouts. And turnout is measured by enthusiasm, intensity, how interested are people. And President Obama - candidate… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the [Ben] Sanders- [Hillary] Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree,… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The Republicans are looking at a country that is going to be a majority minority country in just over a generation. And… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I do think that Republicans are flirting with their tax cut, which has always been the narcotic of Republicans, that they in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The reality is that the Republicans twice had Mitt Romney as a potential nominee. They chose him in 2008 - 2012. In… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I think the Democrats did a terrible disservice, the Hillary Clinton campaign did, to Tim Kaine. Tim Kaine had the earned reputation… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
[Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel,… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The Republicans have, with some pride - George W. Bush won the White House by promising to restore dignity to the Oval… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
You have to understand that Republicans are on lockstep on one issue. They will not raise taxes. Democrats are in lockstep on… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
From 1976, Judy to 1996, we had six presidential elections. And it was run under the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1974.… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I believe devoutly that the national election is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament of democracy. And I really… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I mean, this is a group [Republicans], don't forget, that gave its presidential straw ballot to Ron Paul, Ron Paul, and Rand… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
As long as Republicans won't - won't raise taxes and as long as Democrats won't in any way make entitlements based on… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I'm not sure Betsy DeVos has ever spent a day in a public school. And I don't - I'm pretty sure Donald Trump hasn't. — Mark Shields Copy Share
Donald Trump is sounding the same theme he has sounded since May or June of 2015. — Mark Shields Copy Share
I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child… — Mark Shields Copy Share
Dan Coats, retiring senator from Indiana, a mild-mannered man, a former United States ambassador to Germany, former congressman, said of Ted Cruz he's the… — Mark Shields Copy Share
It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC. — Mark Shields Copy Share
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… — Mark Shields Copy Share
Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than… — Mark Shields Copy Share
Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing. — Mark Shields Copy Share
Donald Trump defies gravity. And so I guess he has to be Donald Trump. It's gotten him so far. — Mark Shields Copy Share
My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination of the… — Mark Shields Copy Share
I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition. — Mark Shields Copy Share
Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is. — Mark Shields Copy Share
If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights… — Mark Shields Copy Share
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![“[Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, who has given obnoxiousness a new definition in his personal behavior, oftentimes in his dealings with the press, had a very good…” quote by Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/951/mark-shields-1572_behavior_democrats-have-got-to-start-winning-elec_2090136.png)
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