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
If Donald Trump does lose, being revealed as this bizarre personality, Ted Cruz is not going to be what Republicans are looking… — 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 Tea Party thing is only apt in some ways. The activism in the town halls, that looks superficially like it. But… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Something really serious has shifted in the minds of Republicans and certainly others. — 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
[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
I think an increasing number of Republicans are perplexed and actually nervous about Donald Trump and Russia, nervous in the sense that… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Every Republican candidate in the country is going to be asked whether in a debate or where else, by opponents or by… — Mark Shields 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
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
Basically, global capitalism, basically to support it, or is it to be opposed? Is international order to be supported, or is it… — 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
Steve Bannon went to the Conservative Political Action Conference and he said that there was a very important historical turning point, getting… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is an independent presidential candidate who ran on the Republican label. He really did. He took it over. He transformed… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt ran on a balanced budget in 1932, and the greatest president, certainly, of the 20th century. So the idea that… — 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
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
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
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
The other thing that has changed - and this is more detailed to CPAC than the general Republican Party - is they… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I do think, over the last years, a lot of Republicans have decided it's not working, what the party believed in, free… — 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 Image
Donald Trump is sounding the same theme he has sounded since May or June of 2015. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing. — Mark Shields 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
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 Image
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