I'm a little nervous about public funding. It's better than what we got now. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance. — Mark Shields Alliances Copy Share Image
Donald Trump defies gravity. And so I guess he has to be Donald Trump. It's gotten him so far. — 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 Democracy Copy Share Image
Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns. — Mark Shields Campaigns Copy Share Image
It's not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own, living their entire lives in the… — Mark Shields Army Copy Share Image
If Donald Trump does lose, being revealed as this bizarre personality, Ted Cruz is not going to be what Republicans are looking… — Mark Shields Bizarre 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… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I think she [Hillary Clinton] would be far superior to President [Barack] Obama, who is basically remote, aloof and not involved with… — Mark Shields Aloof Copy Share Image
[Donald trump] is moved from the enemy being Barack Obama, now gone, fading is Hillary Clinton, and there is no question he's… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Once I accuse you of racist, I have demonized you, and it means any future collaboration, cooperation between us is a sign… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump, he - you know, buy American, buy American, anti-free trade, and got big cheers. They're waving Russian flags, probably partly… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
George W. Bush in 2000 went to private financing for the nomination, but he accepted public funding in the general. And, quite… — 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
Hillary Clinton, at the end of the debate, what you want viewers to say, yes, she's smart, she's knowledgeable, but she's not… — Mark Shields American politics 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 Eras Copy Share Image
Kevin McCarthy, who is the House majority leader, was pretty open. He went out and recruited candidates. And the Republicans in the… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
In the past, in order to continue as a candidate, a serious candidate, you had to be in the top three finishes… — 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 Care 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
Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has. — Mark Shields Democracy Copy Share Image
Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
If Mitt Romney had got the percentage Ronald Reagan did of Hispanics, he would have defeated Barack Obama. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign. — Mark Shields Campaigns Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney was the man who stood up to Donald Trump early, hard, never wavered. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is sounding the same theme he has sounded since May or June of 2015. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon said it best. It makes no difference whether they hold your nose or whether they go would through a wall… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The strength of Donald Trump as a candidate - and I'm not in any way defending moral convictions or anything of the… — Mark Shields Candidate Copy Share Image
The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image