Will Shields Quotes

I think Hillary Clinton - first of all, it's a great victory, acknowledge it. She has made history.

Richard Nixon said it best. It makes no difference whether they hold your nose or whether they go would through a wall to vote for you. It counts the same with the X.

Tim Kaine didn't come across authentic. It wasn't good. And it was - it just really - I think, for short-term benefit, I think the Democrats tarnished the brand, which is an awfully good brand.

America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at the border.

[Dwight Eisenhower was ] a citizen of the world.

[Donald trump] is moved from the enemy being Barack Obama, now gone, fading is Hillary Clinton, and there is no question he's chosen the enemy.

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

Basically, global capitalism, basically to support it, or is it to be opposed? Is international order to be supported, or is it to be opposed? Republicans have taken a very clear line.

Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace and activism, and we're the party that's going to have a civilized capitalism.

Lee Atwater,[Ronald] Reagan's strategist, had no patience for CPAC, because he thought they were sort of wild and immature, basically.

It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.

The Republicans are looking at a country that is going to be a majority minority country in just over a generation. And they are an increasingly white party.

We have weakened the parties and strengthened all the special interests.

They're still a subject beholden to special interests, but at least they have a national constituency. At least they have to think about national majorities.

Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.

Politics, they all - talked to the insiders.

I saw money change votes.I mean, they just seem unaware of this, that money is something - if they want to see the appearance of corruption, all they had to do was look in Las Vegas last weekend.

The studies that show the reason Washington real estate is booming and there are so many lobbyists in town, it does pay.

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

There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.

Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.

The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

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

I think she [Hillary Clinton] would be far superior to President [Barack] Obama, who is basically remote, aloof and not involved with - he doesn't deal with members of Congress.

I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.

Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money.

You really have one bite at the apple.

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.