Mark Shields Quotes

There's a debate among Democrats about how they should approach this new [Donald's Trump] administration.

For Democrats, nothing is any less complex than a 'West Wing' episode.

Newt Gingrich would cream Barack Obama in a debate.

When you look at that debate stage, Mitt Romney could have dominated it maybe.

I think if Donald Trump skipped out on a debate, for whatever reason he gave, I don't think it would help him at all.

Jeb Bush brought it up at the debate and he was doing it very well, and all of a sudden, I don't know what happened, but he got shut down.

And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.

Republicans like to indict Democrats as anti-corporate zealots.

The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.

But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues - being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives.

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.

The Democrats fought with the conservatives. The Republicans fought with the liberals. The Bull Moosers fought with everybody.

I am not running with Hillary.

There's an old saying in politics: You never run the same race twice. Democrats are running the same race three, four, five times. It's an old ploy, and Coloradans see through it.

If you study how Ronald Reagan won first the 1980 election and then in 1984, what Reagan did is what Trump is going to do, and that is pull in a tremendous amount of blue-collar workers who have felt abandoned by the Democrats.

It was a terrible idea by the Democrats to support Hillary Clinton.

Dozens of Democrats appear on Fox News each month. If it were not worth their time and energy to debate, converse and display their experience and governing styles to millions of voters who happen to watch Fox News, wouldn't they all just line up at others' broadcast booths on Capitol Hill?

Historically, Democrats have been far more united than Republicans when it comes to policy, ideology and public debate.

To defeat Donald Trump, the Democrats must run a stellar cast of all-stars in their primary.

In 1972, former Texas Governor John Connally led 'Democrats for Nixon.'

Over the years, Democrats have had a lot of very talented individuals, but they have lacked fighters.

Democrats are very good at governing. When it comes to messaging, I'm not too sure about.

There's a line of thinking about Ted Cruz.

The Republican Party does not want to defeat Democrats.