We have weakened the parties and strengthened all the special interests. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has emphasized that she is afflicted with or possessed of the responsibility gene. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I think Hillary Clinton - first of all, it's a great victory, acknowledge it. She has made history. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene. — Mark Shields 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
Americans don't like the way Washington operates. They don't like Washington. They don't like the way things are going. — 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… — 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
[Donald] Trump is instructive.For Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is writing a different theme, which is it's midnight in America and that things are bad, and they're bleak, and… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush,… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace… — 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
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
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
I think she [Hillary Clinton] would be far superior to President [Barack] Obama, who is basically remote, aloof and not involved with… — 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
Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two. — Mark Shields 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
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
Something really serious has shifted in the minds of Republicans and certainly others. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
When the party holds the White House, all the political decisions are made in the White House. And being a party chair,… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
All politics is personal with President Trump. And that carries with it great, great problems. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump is obviously the more colorful, the more flamboyant, the more dominant personality. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney looks like a secretary of state. He looks like the chancellor of the exchequer. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt had a pretty clear line. Ronald Reagan had a pretty clear line, people who rescue parties. — 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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