Mark Shields

Politics, they all - talked to the insiders.

— Mark Shields

George Bush is trying to play it both ways.

— Mark Shields

The tough thing about a campaign being over is, you lose your enemy.

— Mark Shields

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

— Mark Shields

There is a cleavage and a divide in America like I have never seen before.

— Mark Shields

I'm a little nervous about public funding. It's better than what we got now.

— Mark Shields

I think the Republican Party is cursed. And it's cursed itself.

— Mark Shields

The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance.

— Mark Shields

The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do.

— Mark Shields

The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.

— Mark Shields

Hillary Clinton should get a bounce out of her convention, I mean a bounce in the polls. I think it's probably conceded…

— Mark Shields

In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry…

— Mark Shields

The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet…

— Mark Shields

I think Donald Trump is not going to be impeached [in a ] month. Let's not close out possibilities.I do think that…

— Mark Shields

[Hillary] Clinton is much more embracing of the global economy and the international world order. [Ben] Sanders and [Scott] Warren are much…

— Mark Shields

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

— Mark Shields

Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.

— Mark Shields

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no…

— Mark Shields

Ronald Reagan four times accepted the limits in contributions of what he could take, what he could spend, and the public funding…

— Mark Shields

This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member…

— Mark Shields

Being a party chair, you really have a chance to make a difference. but what the Democrats have to do is recognize…

— Mark Shields

The pattern of American presidential elections is that the more optimistic candidate, whether it's John Kennedy and let's get America moving again,…

— Mark Shields

President [John F.] Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs, said to Turner Catledge of The New York Times: I wish you had…

— Mark Shields

I don't think he should make foreign policy on the basis of peak,but I don't think it can be overstated that Israel…

— Mark Shields

Russia is a country that has supported, propped up the worst of anti-democratic regimes in the Middle East, that has practiced -…

— Mark Shields

The single worst campaign slogan I have ever heard, is Hillary's Clinton, "I'm with her," it means nothing. It absolutely means nothing…

— Mark Shields

Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.

— Mark Shields

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.

— Mark Shields

Donald Trump is sounding the same theme he has sounded since May or June of 2015.

— Mark Shields

Donald Trump is to traditional values what I am to marathon running.

— Mark Shields

That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign.

— Mark Shields

He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.

— Mark Shields

Mitt Romney was the man who stood up to Donald Trump early, hard, never wavered.

— Mark Shields

Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing.

— Mark Shields

John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush.

— Mark Shields

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

— Mark Shields

There's never been a sense of public service about Donald Trump.

— Mark Shields

You want a leader, Western leader, English-speaking? Mitt Romney.

— Mark Shields

The problem is that what Donald Trump said, if you take it literally now, is cause for anxiety and nervousness.

— Mark Shields

If an abduction is reported, it is dealt with in the same way as a kidnap.

— Mark Shields