Quote

You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.

Mark Shields

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
Columnist
Writer
Weymouth
Massachusetts
Mark Stephen Shields
Saying
Didn
Kerry
Find
George
People
Bush
Boat
John
Serve
Anybody

More quotes by Mark Shields

Image
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.
Mark Shields
Image
Donald Trump has taken over the Republican Party. He's transformed the Republican Party.
Mark Shields
Image
The Democratic Party is a coalition. Its strength and its weakness is, it's a coalition of interest groups, caucuses. It's a lot less homogeneous than the Republican Party, where people tend to believe the same things and oftentimes look alike.
Mark Shields
Image
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.
Mark Shields
Image
Clinton's major problem, and the two aren't separable really because there is hope in the country, the hope - - optimism has slipped dramatically, make no mistake about every measurement shows that. But the hope is still there. Hope is with him. People want change. They see him as the best chance for change.
Mark Shields
Image
Donadld Trump loves loyalty.
Mark Shields
Image
Drones are sort of the perfect weapon for a country that doesn't want to go to war. It only - there's no fingerprint. There's no direct involvement. There's human beings killed on the other end. You never see them. You don't have to worry about them. You don't have to meet their widows. It's sort of an antiseptic warfare.
Mark Shields
Image
There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.
Mark Shields
Image
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.
Mark Shields
Image
[Donald] Trump is instructive.For Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.
Mark Shields
Image
[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.
Mark Shields
Image
Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.
Mark Shields
Image
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.
Mark Shields
Image
The president has to have the trust, earn the trust, maintain the trust of people in order to lead. And there's nothing that will lose it quicker than a sense that he's in it for a quick buck.
Mark Shields
Image
[Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, who has given obnoxiousness a new definition in his personal behavior, oftentimes in his dealings with the press, had a very good point.
Mark Shields
Image
He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.
Mark Shields
Image
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.
Mark Shields
Image
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.
Mark Shields
Image
Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!
Mark Shields
Image
I think Hillary Clinton - first of all, it's a great victory, acknowledge it. She has made history.
Mark Shields