--- title: "15 Mean Quotes By Mark Shields" description: "15 Mean quotes by Mark Shields. Plus more from Mark Shields and more Mean sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/mark-shields-1572_doe_mitt-romney-looks-like-a-president-i-mea_2086552.png" --- > [Mitt Romney looks like a president. I mean, he really does.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/mitt-romney-looks-like-a-president-i-mean-he-really-does/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/mark-shields-1572_doe_mitt-romney-looks-like-a-president-i-mea_2086552.png) > [The strength of Donald Trump as a candidate - and I'm not in any way defending moral convictions or anything of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/the-strength-of-donald-trump-as-a-candidate-and-i-m-not-in-any-way/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c62/mark-shields-1572_candidate_the-strength-of-donald-trump-as-a-candid_3088143.png) > [Once I accuse you of racist, I have demonized you, and it means any future collaboration, cooperation between us is a sign…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/once-i-accuse-you-of-racist-i-have-demonized-you-and-it-means-any/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e0/mark-shields-1572_accuse_once-i-accuse-you-of-racist-i-have-demon_1556128.png) > [The Republicans, they are in the danger of rooting for the country to fail. They look bad that way, I mean, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/the-republicans-they-are-in-the-danger-of-rooting-for-the-country-to/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6a/mark-shields-1572_cheer_the-republicans-they-are-in-the-danger-o_649085.png) > [ I thought what Steve Bannon said was probably more chilling or more threatening than anything the president \[Donald Trump\]says, I mean, because… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/i-thought-what-steve-bannon-said-was-probably-more-chilling-or-more/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b7/mark-shields-1572_chill_i-thought-what-steve-bannon-said-was-pro_1339662.png) > [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/i-don-t-hear-any-clear-coherent-message-from-democrats-i-mean-when/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f68/mark-shields-1572_chairs_i-don-t-hear-any-clear-coherent-message_2042551.png) > [Hillary Clinton should get a bounce out of her convention, I mean a bounce in the polls. I think it's probably conceded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/hillary-clinton-should-get-a-bounce-out-of-her-convention-i-mean-a/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8d/mark-shields-1572_bounce_hillary-clinton-should-get-a-bounce-out_3100262.jpg) > [I saw money change votes.I mean, they just seem unaware of this, that money is something - if they want to see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/i-saw-money-change-votes-i-mean-they-just-seem-unaware-of-this-that/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e4/mark-shields-1572_appearance_i-saw-money-change-votes-i-mean-they-jus_1123044.png) > [ Whether it's her \[ Hillary Clinton\] guarded privacy or whatever else, I mean, there has got to be some sense that this… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/whether-it-s-her-hillary-clinton-guarded-privacy-or-whatever-else-i/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b7/mark-shields-1572_clinton_whether-it-s-her-hillary-clinton-guarded_300109.png) > [Barack Obama did get a higher percentage of the vote than anybody has in this country in 20 years. I mean, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/barack-obama-did-get-a-higher-percentage-of-the-vote-than-anybody-has/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b20/mark-shields-1572_barack_barack-obama-did-get-a-higher-percentage_2381492.jpg) > [Russia is a country that has supported, propped up the worst of anti-democratic regimes in the Middle East, that has practiced -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/russia-is-a-country-that-has-supported-propped-up-the-worst-of-anti/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/083/mark-shields-1572_civil-society_russia-is-a-country-that-has-supported-p_451952.jpg) > [The single worst campaign slogan I have ever heard, is Hillary's Clinton, "I'm with her," it means nothing. It absolutely means nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/the-single-worst-campaign-slogan-i-have-ever-heard-is-hillary-s/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c50/mark-shields-1572_campaign_the-single-worst-campaign-slogan-i-have_579338.jpg) > [ I mean, this is a group \[Republicans\], don't forget, that gave its presidential straw ballot to Ron Paul, Ron Paul, and Rand… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/i-mean-this-is-a-group-republicans-don-t-forget-that-gave-its/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/955/mark-shields-1572_abandoned_i-mean-this-is-a-group-republicans-don-t_3226797.png) > [The problem is that every study I'm aware of, which is probably not that many, has indicated that a dollar spent in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/the-problem-is-that-every-study-i-m-aware-of-which-is-probably-not/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ec/mark-shields-1572_avoidance_the-problem-is-that-every-study-i-m-awar_1304395.jpg) > [I do think that Republicans are flirting with their tax cut, which has always been the narcotic of Republicans, that they in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/i-do-think-that-republicans-are-flirting-with-their-tax-cut-which-has/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5b/mark-shields-1572_abandon_i-do-think-that-republicans-are-flirting_377521.jpg) ## Other authors on Mean ## More by Mark Shields > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/i-m-not-sure-betsy-devos-has-ever-spent-a-day-in-a-public-school-and/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) > [Donald Trump is sounding the same theme he has sounded since May or June of 2015.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/donald-trump-is-sounding-the-same-theme-he-has-sounded-since-may-or/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) > [I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/i-do-look-upon-the-secretary-of-education-s-primary-responsibility-as/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/dan-coats-retiring-senator-from-indiana-a-mild-mannered-man-a-former/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) > [It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/it-s-interesting-how-identity-politics-and-ann-coulter-style-tactics/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/when-you-run-for-president-of-the-united-states-everybody-does-the/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/americans-don-t-like-powerful-figures-who-punch-down-that-is-who-pick/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) > [Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/everyone-has-to-take-donald-trump-seriously-and-i-think-that-s-what/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) > [Donald Trump defies gravity. And so I guess he has to be Donald Trump. It's gotten him so far.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/donald-trump-defies-gravity-and-so-i-guess-he-has-to-be-donald-trump/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) > [ My church \[Catholisism\] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination of the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/my-church-catholisism-is-hurting-from-arrogance-and-from-its/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) > [America is Republican until 5:00 or 6:00 at night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/america-is-republican-until-5-00-or-6-00-at-night/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) > [John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/john-kerry-s-biography-was-central-to-his-campaign/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) > [I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/i-think-guantanamo-has-been-synonymous-with-the-staining-of-american/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) > [Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/stronger-together-is-i-think-a-preposition-and-a-comparative/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/if-you-only-make-fights-that-you-re-going-to-win-there-would-be-no/) [Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mean/mark-shields/#itemlist", "name": "15 Mean Quotes By Mark Shields", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Mitt Romney looks like a president. 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I mean, it was a resounding victory. I mean, whether his core constituency was 20 percent or what, his electoral constituency, which is how we measure elections, was 53 percent, which was, you know, historically high, the highest of any Democrat, other than Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Shields" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/barack-obama-did-get-a-higher-percentage-of-the-vote-than-anybody-has/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b20/mark-shields-1572_barack_barack-obama-did-get-a-higher-percentage_2381492.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b20/mark-shields-1572_barack_barack-obama-did-get-a-higher-percentage_2381492.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b20/mark-shields-1572_barack_barack-obama-did-get-a-higher-percentage_2381492.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Barack Obama did get a higher percentage of the vote than anybody has in this country in 20 years. I mean…” — Mark Shields", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Russia is a country that has supported, propped up the worst of anti-democratic regimes in the Middle East, that has practiced - mistreated its own press, mistreated its own civil society, and economic intimidation of its neighbors, including invasion of its neighbors.I mean, this is the one country on the face of the earth with the capacity to obliterate the United States.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Shields" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/russia-is-a-country-that-has-supported-propped-up-the-worst-of-anti/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/083/mark-shields-1572_civil-society_russia-is-a-country-that-has-supported-p_451952.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/083/mark-shields-1572_civil-society_russia-is-a-country-that-has-supported-p_451952.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/083/mark-shields-1572_civil-society_russia-is-a-country-that-has-supported-p_451952.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Russia is a country that has supported, propped up the worst of anti-democratic regimes in the Middle East…” — Mark Shields", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The single worst campaign slogan I have ever heard, is Hillary's Clinton, \"I'm with her,\" it means nothing. It absolutely means nothing to anybody. I mean, it's about appealing - and it says nothing about anybody's life, about the country.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Shields" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/the-single-worst-campaign-slogan-i-have-ever-heard-is-hillary-s/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c50/mark-shields-1572_campaign_the-single-worst-campaign-slogan-i-have_579338.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c50/mark-shields-1572_campaign_the-single-worst-campaign-slogan-i-have_579338.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c50/mark-shields-1572_campaign_the-single-worst-campaign-slogan-i-have_579338.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The single worst campaign slogan I have ever heard, is Hillary's Clinton, \"I'm with her,\" it means nothing…” — Mark Shields", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I mean, this is a group [Republicans], don't forget, that gave its presidential straw ballot to Ron Paul, Ron Paul, and Rand Paul and Rand Paul. 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