Mark Shields
Politics, they all - talked to the insiders.Collection: Insiders
Let's give the president some due here. They had a mess, and he fixed it, and they mobilized a lot of authority, and they did it.Collection: Giving
I think part of Donald Trump's appeal is that he's a guy that does cut corners, that he's the guy that does get deals and maybe does break a speed limit. I think there was sort of a roguish, rascally, but I get things done even if I break the rules.Collection: Cutting
In a strange way, Hillary Clinton was helped and victimized by Barack and Michelle Obama.Michelle Obama was probably better than Barack Obama, if you think about it.Her speech is a masterful, masterful speech. And she delivered it in a persuasively conversational tone.Collection: Thinking
The single worst campaign slogan I have ever heard, is Hillary's Clinton, "I'm with her," it means nothing. It absolutely means nothing to anybody. I mean, it's about appealing - and it says nothing about anybody's life, about the country.Collection: Country
It doesn't have to be the same line that we have had for the last 40 years, because that clearly isn't working on any level. But you have got to have a pretty clear line on this crucial issue.Collection: Years
All politics is personal with President Trump. And that carries with it great, great problems.Collection: President
I think Donald Trump is obviously the more colorful, the more flamboyant, the more dominant personality.Collection: Thinking
The fact is that it's the most dangerous place to be on the political scale is to brand those on the other side as racist. That's the atomic bomb. That's the nuclear weapon of an American.Collection: Political
Donald Trump picked a remarkably nice guy in Mike Pence.Collection: Nice
I'm not sure Betsy DeVos has ever spent a day in a public school. And I don't - I'm pretty sure Donald Trump hasn't.Collection: School
Critics of Donald Trump take him literally, but not seriously. His supporters take him seriously, but not literally.Collection: Trump
My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination of the leadership to protect the institution, rather than the children.Collection: Hurt
The Republicans, they are in the danger of rooting for the country to fail. They look bad that way, I mean, and I want to say to them, cheer up, Republicans. Eventually, things will get worse.Collection: Country
90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.Collection: School
Sometimes, you just let the country have its way, and you don't try to determine the shape of the country. You sort of modestly step back and let the country figure out what it believes.Collection: Country
Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.Collection: Party
Tim Kaine kind of gives the warmer, human face of the Democrats.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: People
Hillary Clinton has emphasized that she is afflicted with or possessed of the responsibility gene.Collection: Responsibility
People in the White House work hard, whatever administration. They get rewarded in psychic income, a sense that they are involved in something bigger than themselves, that it's important.Collection: Hard Work
Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Party
All about midterm elections is turnouts. And turnout is measured by enthusiasm, intensity, how interested are people. And President Obama - candidate Obama had it on his side in 2008. The Democrats had it on their side in 2006. The enthusiasm, the intensity, the passion was all on their side.Collection: Passion
If an abduction is reported, it is dealt with in the same way as a kidnap.Collection: Way
I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.Collection: Children