Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing. — 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
That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign. — 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
The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
At a time when the public is sour on politicians, have no use for them, Bill Clinton has risen to a different… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
There are people who know Hillary Clinton who tell wonderful stories about her, how likable she is, how funny she is; 99… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Whether it's her [ Hillary Clinton] guarded privacy or whatever else, I mean, there has got to be some sense that this… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Critics of Donald Trump take him literally, but not seriously. His supporters take him seriously, but not literally. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I'm sure little Marco [Rubio] didn't think it would stick. I'm sure crooked Hillary [Clinton] didn't think it would stick. These labels… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Tim Kaine didn't come across authentic. It wasn't good. And it was - it just really - I think, for short-term benefit,… — 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 president has to have the trust, earn the trust, maintain the trust of people in order to lead. And there's nothing… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I mean, this is a group [Republicans], don't forget, that gave its presidential straw ballot to Ron Paul, Ron Paul, and Rand… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The final thing the Tea Party had was, they fed into the philosophy that Donald Trump now embodies. So they had a… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The Democrats have to do what he did when [Rahm Emanuel] was chairman of the Democratic House Campaign Committee, recruit veterans, recruit… — 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
I think part of Donald Trump's appeal is that he's a guy that does cut corners, that he's the guy that does… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
By a 2-1 margin, voters believe that Donald Trump would change business as usual in Washington, but by almost as large a… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I believe devoutly that the national election is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament of democracy. And I really… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I think this was as good a Democratic Convention [ this was my 24th convention] as I have seen since the 1976… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
But the people at home if we're doing a town meeting or a town format. You have to answer the question that… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
But take the Russia issue. You open up the convention, and you have got a report that the Democratic Party has been… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders. — 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
All politics is personal with President Trump. And that carries with it great, great problems. — 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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