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
[Donald] Trump is instructive.For Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt had a pretty clear line. Ronald Reagan had a pretty clear line, people who rescue parties. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush,… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I have my disagreements with President Obama, but President Obama has run an amazingly scandal-free administration, not only he himself, but the… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
[Hillary Clinton] showed, while in the Senate, that ability to connect and reach across and to forge alliances. I think she will… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Benjamin Netanyahu is no Winston Churchill. Whatever else he, is he's not a Winston Churchill. He basically violated the great rule, which… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party is a coalition. Its strength and its weakness is, it's a coalition of interest groups, caucuses. It's a lot… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I think that the people that are publicly on Hillary Clinton's short list all are very congenial people. They're not people with… — 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
I am struck the whole litany of people, especially of that era, who were involved in some scandal or another. Some of… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The lobbying over China most favored nation trading status was disgusting. There's no way in hell that MFN would have passed in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I think that "Arabs coming out in droves" is so violative Jewish values that non-Jews admire so much about Jewish people throughout… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The people who are rising, they're super ambitious. They have relationships with people above them. They have relationships, hierarchical, sort of people… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
There is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
But the people at home if we're doing a town meeting or a town format. You have to answer the question that… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
To me, the fundamental thing - well, I guess I see a lot of people debating in the wrong way. A lot… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
It's both strategic, to get people's minds off other things, and to pick an internal enemy. It's part of [Donald Trump's] psychodynamics… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The president has to have the trust, earn the trust, maintain the trust of people in order to lead. And there's nothing… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump is not going to be impeached [in a ] month. Let's not close out possibilities.I do think that… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, I hate to tell people who are concerned about it, is not going to be impeached. The American people believe… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
By a 2-1 margin, voters believe that Donald Trump would change business as usual in Washington, but by almost as large a… — 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
Clinton's major problem, and the two aren't separable really because there is hope in the country, the hope - - optimism has… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The Democrats have to do what he did when [Rahm Emanuel] was chairman of the Democratic House Campaign Committee, recruit veterans, recruit… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
There are people who know Hillary Clinton who tell wonderful stories about her, how likable she is, how funny she is; 99… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
People in the White House work hard, whatever administration. They get rewarded in psychic income, a sense that they are involved in… — 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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