Mark Shields Quotes

Immigrants have been the sustenance and the survival and the treasure of America.

That's the job of a free press is to hold the lamp up, to investigate, to hold accountable. And denying access, as Sean Spicer did , is the first step toward a dictatorship.

The strength of Donald Trump as a candidate - and I'm not in any way defending moral convictions or anything of the sort - was that he says what he means, you know where he stands.

Franklin Roosevelt had a pretty clear line. Ronald Reagan had a pretty clear line, people who rescue parties.

It's tempting to remember that the Tea Party had a peak and then the Republican Party establishment sort of beat it back down. And so these things are won in a day.

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 they are.

Donald Trump is an independent presidential candidate who ran on the Republican label. He really did. He took it over. He transformed it into his image, in his likeness.

Donald Trump has taken over the Republican Party. He's transformed the Republican Party.

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

The Democrats have an economic message that is directed at people at the lower end. That has been their cornerstone. The Republicans has been more upscale.

The Democrats are now an upscale party.

America is Republican until 5:00 or 6:00 at night.

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

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

American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts.

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 be a national party chair.

The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's always outside agitators doing it.

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 laws in the country.

When the party holds the White House, all the political decisions are made in the White House. And being a party chair, you're just an artifact.

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

When you think of pristine preservation of America, you immediately think of Tulsa and Oklahoma.

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

I think that the people that are publicly on Hillary Clinton's short list all are very congenial people. They're not people with personality or Captain Queeg problems.

The Democrats are standing on one side, and the Republicans are playing games on the other. Both sides are playing games.

I think Democrats ought to be concerned, that the party has become almost prideful about the college-educated vote that it's getting, the support that Hillary Clinton is getting against Donald Trump.

If Donald Trump does lose, being revealed as this bizarre personality, Ted Cruz is not going to be what Republicans are looking for in 2020.

Whether it's her [ Hillary Clinton] guarded privacy or whatever else, I mean, there has got to be some sense that this is a human being that I can identify.

[Donald] Trump is instructive.For Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.

Russia today is nothing but a propaganda arm.

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

Mitt Romney looks like a president. I mean, he really does.

I personally believe that [Donald Trump] is wrong on the condition of America.

We're not being invaded by undocumented immigrants who are coming to kill police officers and commit crimes. And I don't think most Americans think it's true.

Americans don't like the way Washington operates. They don't like Washington. They don't like the way things are going.

Donald Trump is not an unintelligent man.

It's not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own, living their entire lives in the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of the parents every single day.

For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the [Ben] Sanders- [Hillary] Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree, they're sentenced to that debate.