I think Donald Trump is obviously the more colorful, the more flamboyant, the more dominant personality. — 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
Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Something really serious has shifted in the minds of Republicans and certainly others. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has taken over the Republican Party. He's transformed the Republican Party. — 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
Mitt Romney looks like a secretary of state. He looks like the chancellor of the exchequer. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I personally believe that [Donald Trump] is wrong on the condition of America. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
[In politics] when A goes after B and there's a C, and D and a Q all lined up there, you have… — 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
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
Democrats, if they're smart and they're not brain-dead, are doing two things right now.They're having self-deprecating humor written for them. There was… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Presidential trust is something, that's perishable and it's precious. And once a president loses it, it's not a question of whether it's… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Donald Trump manages to personalize everything. He brings chaos. He will not admit that he's ever made a mistake, that he's ever… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Lee Atwater,[Ronald] Reagan's strategist, had no patience for CPAC, because he thought they were sort of wild and immature, basically. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton, at the end of the debate, what you want viewers to say, yes, she's smart, she's knowledgeable, but she's not… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
All about midterm elections is turnouts. And turnout is measured by enthusiasm, intensity, how interested are people. And President Obama - candidate… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Tim Kaine reminds me of - Peter Hart.Tim Kaine is a good neighbor. He's kind of the dependable, you know, friendly, helpful.… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The uncritically admiring supporters and friends of the prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu], in whose ranks I certainly don't include David [Brooks], but… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I think the Democrats did a terrible disservice, the Hillary Clinton campaign did, to Tim Kaine. Tim Kaine had the earned reputation… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
It's both strategic, to get people's minds off other things, and to pick an internal enemy. It's part of [Donald Trump's] psychodynamics… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
[Hillary Clinton] showed, while in the Senate, that ability to connect and reach across and to forge alliances. I think she will… — 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
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
I think Hillary Clinton - first of all, it's a great victory, acknowledge it. She has made history. — 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
We have weakened the parties and strengthened all the special interests. — 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
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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![“[Hillary Clinton] showed, while in the Senate, that ability to connect and reach across and to forge alliances. I think she will be better [than Barack Obama]. But I think the problem with connecting emotionally with the people remains at large is - in a wholesale way.” quote by Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/109/mark-shields-1572_ability_hillary-clinton-showed-while-in-the-sena_2745008.png)
