Mark Stephen Shields (born May 25, 1937) is an American political columnist and commentator.
Lee Atwater,[Ronald] Reagan's strategist, had no patience for CPAC, because he thought they were sort of wild and immature, basically.
The problem is that what Donald Trump said, if you take it literally now, is cause for anxiety and nervousness.
Gone is any mention of American exceptionalism. I happen to believe that twice, three times in the 20th century, the United States saved Western democracy, both World War - both World Wars and the Cold War.
George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.
[Donald] Trump is instructive. For Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.
I think the Republican Party is cursed. And it's cursed itself.
Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.
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.
The Democrats are now an upscale party.
You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U. N. or any other place.
John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.
Donald Trump is to traditional values what I am to marathon running.
I think the Democrats did a terrible disservice, the Hillary Clinton campaign did, to Tim Kaine. Tim Kaine had the earned reputation of being one of the most respected and well-liked, and not cheap partisan members of the United States Senate. And they turned him into an attack dog.
Russia today is nothing but a propaganda arm.
Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.
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.
I am struck the whole litany of people, especially of that era, who were involved in some scandal or another. Some of it was sexual. Some of it was more financial. And it was just all concentrated in a lot of people all at once.
I'm a little nervous about public funding. It's better than what we got now.
The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.
[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.