Mark Shields

[Dwight Eisenhower was ] a citizen of the world.

— Mark Shields

America is Republican until 5:00 or 6:00 at night.

— Mark Shields

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

— Mark Shields

There's never been a sense of public service about Donald Trump.

— Mark Shields

You want a leader, Western leader, English-speaking? Mitt Romney.

— Mark Shields

The problem is that what Donald Trump said, if you take it literally now, is cause for anxiety and nervousness.

— Mark Shields

Something really serious has shifted in the minds of Republicans and certainly others.

— Mark Shields

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

— Mark Shields

Immigrants have been the sustenance and the survival and the treasure of America.

— Mark Shields

All politics is personal with President Trump. And that carries with it great, great problems.

— Mark Shields

The Democrats have an economic message that is directed at people at the lower end. That has been their cornerstone. The Republicans…

— Mark Shields

American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

— Mark Shields

I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene.

— Mark Shields

[The Republicans] looked at basically the failed wars and they said, oh, this, us being the policeman of the world, that is…

— Mark Shields

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…

— Mark Shields

Gone is any mention of American exceptionalism. I happen to believe that twice, three times in the 20th century, the United States…

— Mark Shields

The Republicans, they are in the danger of rooting for the country to fail. They look bad that way, I mean, and…

— Mark Shields

Americans don't like the way Washington operates. They don't like Washington. They don't like the way things are going.

— Mark Shields

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

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

Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a…

— Mark Shields

Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of…

— Mark Shields

The uncritically admiring supporters and friends of the prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu], in whose ranks I certainly don't include David [Brooks], but…

— Mark Shields

The person you're choosing is going to be 90 feet down the hall for four years. That's a pretty intimate and close…

— Mark Shields

Drones are sort of the perfect weapon for a country that doesn't want to go to war. It only - there's no…

— Mark Shields

Tim Kaine reminds me of - Peter Hart.Tim Kaine is a good neighbor. He's kind of the dependable, you know, friendly, helpful.…

— Mark Shields

I think Donald Trump is obviously the more colorful, the more flamboyant, the more dominant personality.

— Mark Shields

There's nothing wrong with being organized.Things that change history tend to be organized.

— Mark Shields

Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts.

— Mark Shields

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

— Mark Shields

Franklin Roosevelt had a pretty clear line. Ronald Reagan had a pretty clear line, people who rescue parties.

— Mark Shields

Donald Trump has taken over the Republican Party. He's transformed the Republican Party.

— Mark Shields

Mitt Romney looks like a secretary of state. He looks like the chancellor of the exchequer.

— Mark Shields

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

— Mark Shields

When you think of pristine preservation of America, you immediately think of Tulsa and Oklahoma.

— Mark Shields

The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.

— Mark Shields

The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do.

— Mark Shields

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

— Mark Shields

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

— Mark Shields

There is a cleavage and a divide in America like I have never seen before.

— Mark Shields