Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to… — Mark Shields Death 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
90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The economy of the United States gross domestic product doubled from 1996 to 2015, doubled, more than, $8.8 trillion to $17.1 trillion.… — Mark Shields Economy Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you just let the country have its way, and you don't try to determine the shape of the country. You sort… — 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 Advantage 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
Barack Obama did get a higher percentage of the vote than anybody has in this country in 20 years. I mean, it… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
[Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel,… — Mark Shields Behavior Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan four times accepted the limits in contributions of what he could take, what he could spend, and the public funding… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member… — Mark Shields African american Copy Share Image
The other thing that has changed - and this is more detailed to CPAC than the general Republican Party - is they… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I do think what the Tea Party also had was Obamacare and the unpopularity of that, at least at the time. And… — Mark Shields Administration Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, I hate to tell people who are concerned about it, is not going to be impeached. The American people believe… — Mark Shields American people Copy Share Image
There is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a… — Mark Shields Art world Copy Share Image
The Tea Party thing is only apt in some ways. The activism in the town halls, that looks superficially like it. But… — Mark Shields Activism 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… — Mark Shields Ambassadors Copy Share Image
The way to solve all the money in politics is not to pretend we can get money out of politics. That will… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Russia is a country that has supported, propped up the worst of anti-democratic regimes in the Middle East, that has practiced -… — Mark Shields Civil society Copy Share Image
Campaigns are fun. Campaigns are police escorts, they're airplanes, they're crowds, they're balloons, they're bands, a lot of fun. You speak in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know… — Mark Shields Advocate Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt ran on a balanced budget in 1932, and the greatest president, certainly, of the 20th century. So the idea that… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
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 America Copy Share Image
Being a party chair, you really have a chance to make a difference. but what the Democrats have to do is recognize… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
President [John F.] Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs, said to Turner Catledge of The New York Times: I wish you had… — Mark Shields Bay of pigs 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 football players, recruit business people. And I think that's what the job of the new party chair has to be.” quote by Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0c/mark-shields-1572_ball-player_the-democrats-have-to-do-what-he-did-whe_2838657.png)
![“[Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, who has given obnoxiousness a new definition in his personal behavior, oftentimes in his dealings with the press, had a very good…” quote by Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/951/mark-shields-1572_behavior_democrats-have-got-to-start-winning-elec_2090136.png)
![“The other thing that has changed - and this is more detailed to CPAC than the general Republican Party - is they have always been an outsider, Ann Coulter, sort of protest style, a little ruder than most Republicans. And this goes back all the way to [Ronald] Reagan.” quote by Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/mark-shields-1572_changed_the-other-thing-that-has-changed-and-thi_2529094.png)
![“Being a party chair, you really have a chance to make a difference. but what the Democrats have to do is recognize and accept the fact that they're at their lowest point [in 2017] since 1928 in the United States House of Representatives and their lowest point since 1925 in states.” quote by Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab7/mark-shields-1572_accepting_being-a-party-chair-you-really-have-a-ch_908715.png)
![“President [John F.] Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs, said to Turner Catledge of The New York Times: I wish you had written more, I wish you had investigated more, because it might have saved the country of the cataclysm of the Bay of Pigs.” quote by Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca1/mark-shields-1572_bay-of-pigs_president-john-f-kennedy-after-the-bay-o_3089349.png)