Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing. — 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 Democracy 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
Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns. — Mark Shields Campaigns 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
Let's give the president some due here. They had a mess, and he fixed it, and they mobilized a lot of authority,… — 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
Americans don't like the way Washington operates. They don't like Washington. They don't like the way things are going. — Mark Shields Americans Copy Share Image
It's not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own, living their entire lives in the… — Mark Shields Army 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 Bizarre 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 Aloof 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
The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your… — Mark Shields Advantage Copy Share Image
The people who are rising, they're super ambitious. They have relationships with people above them. They have relationships, hierarchical, sort of people… — Mark Shields Ambitious Copy Share Image
Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a… — Mark Shields Access 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 America Copy Share Image
The lobbying over China most favored nation trading status was disgusting. There's no way in hell that MFN would have passed in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Benjamin Netanyahu is no Winston Churchill. Whatever else he, is he's not a Winston Churchill. He basically violated the great rule, which… — Mark Shields Election 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 Ability 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 Action Copy Share Image
The charter school is a possibility, an alternative in certain circumstances, but not in most, and not in most places, and not… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has. — Mark Shields Democracy Copy Share Image
Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
If Mitt Romney had got the percentage Ronald Reagan did of Hispanics, he would have defeated Barack Obama. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction. — Mark Shields Democracy Copy Share Image
The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I'm a little nervous about public funding. It's better than what we got now. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance. — Mark Shields Alliances Copy Share Image
There is a cleavage and a divide in America like I have never seen before. — Mark Shields America Copy Share Image
Gone is any mention of American exceptionalism. I happen to believe that twice, three times in the 20th century, the United States… — 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
[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
Once I accuse you of racist, I have demonized you, and it means any future collaboration, cooperation between us is a sign… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
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