The problem is that what Donald Trump said, if you take it literally now, is cause for anxiety and nervousness. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The White House, as Warren Harding said, and I think accurately, is an alchemist. We find out the strengths, the weaknesses and… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I thought what Steve Bannon said was probably more chilling or more threatening than anything the president [Donald Trump]says, I mean, because… — 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
The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] stood up and he said, you finally have a president, you finally have a president. I am the future.And what… — 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
We had the clip of [Donald] Trump saying: I'm not president of the globe. I'm president of the United States.[Ronald] Reagan would… — 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… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
President [John F.] Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs, said to Turner Catledge of The New York Times: I wish you had… — 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
Donald Trump is sounding the same theme he has sounded since May or June of 2015. — Mark Shields Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing. — Mark Shields Copy Share
Donald Trump defies gravity. And so I guess he has to be Donald Trump. It's gotten him so far. — Mark Shields Copy Share
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
I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition. — Mark Shields Copy Share
Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is. — Mark Shields Copy Share
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… — Mark Shields Copy Share
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![“[The Republicans] looked at basically the failed wars and they said, oh, this, us being the policeman of the world, that is not working.” quote by Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/602/mark-shields-1572_democracy_the-republicans-looked-at-basically-the_706892.png)
![“[Donald Trump] stood up and he said, you finally have a president, you finally have a president. I am the future.And what did he get? Hosannas and huzzahs and genuflection. It was a total takeover of the conservative movement.” quote by Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa9/mark-shields-1572_conservative_donald-trump-stood-up-and-he-said-you-fi_2462528.png)
![“We had the clip of [Donald] Trump saying: I'm not president of the globe. I'm president of the United States.[Ronald] Reagan would have never said that. [Dwight] Eisenhower would have never said that, because he would have said, yes, I'm president of the United States, but it's in our interests to…” quote by Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57c/mark-shields-1572_clip_we-had-the-clip-of-donald-trump-saying-i_2662120.png)
![“President [John F.] Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs, said to Turner Catledge of The New York Times: I wish you had written more, I wish you had investigated more, because it might have saved the country of the cataclysm of the Bay of Pigs.” quote by Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca1/mark-shields-1572_bay-of-pigs_president-john-f-kennedy-after-the-bay-o_3089349.png)