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
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
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
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
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
It's tempting to remember that the Tea Party had a peak and then the Republican Party establishment sort of beat it back… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has taken over the Republican Party. He's transformed the Republican Party. — 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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