Quote

The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.

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
Democrat
Tried
War
Didn
Past
Women
Much
Traction
Really
Democrats

More quotes by Mark Shields

Image
The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
Mark Shields
Image
There is always strength in numbers
Mark Shields
Image
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.
Mark Shields
Image
[In politics] when A goes after B and there's a C, and D and a Q all lined up there, you have no idea who's going to be the beneficiary.
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
Donald Trump, I hate to tell people who are concerned about it, is not going to be impeached. The American people believe in giving somebody a fair chance. He's a new president. There have been troubles, there have been problems.
Mark Shields
Image
Mitt Romney looks like a president. I mean, he really does.
Mark Shields
Image
I thought what Steve Bannon said was probably more chilling or more threatening than anything the president [Donald Trump]says, I mean, because he said, it's a constant day. We have to defeat the press.
Mark Shields
Image
You have to understand that Republicans are on lockstep on one issue. They will not raise taxes. Democrats are in lockstep on another issue, pro-choice in all cases on abortion.
Mark Shields
Image
Russia today is nothing but a propaganda arm.
Mark Shields
Image
Donald Trump manages to personalize everything. He brings chaos. He will not admit that he's ever made a mistake, that he's ever been wrong.
Mark Shields
Image
The studies that show the reason Washington real estate is booming and there are so many lobbyists in town, it does pay.
Mark Shields
Image
Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a green light, a further green light, after Citizens United, to the biggest money to have the bigger voice in our politics, and to sound out and drown out the voice of just ordinary citizens.
Mark Shields
Image
Donald Trump is sounding the same theme he has sounded since May or June of 2015.
Mark Shields
Image
The person you're choosing is going to be 90 feet down the hall for four years. That's a pretty intimate and close relationship, and it better be somebody you're comfortable with, you like, you trust, you look forward to seeing, not someone you're coming up with creative ideas on how to avoid.
Mark Shields
Image
90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.
Mark Shields
Image
There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.
Mark Shields
Image
Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command save one has stood with him.
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
I think Hillary Clinton - first of all, it's a great victory, acknowledge it. She has made history.
Mark Shields