Mark Shields Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• But take the Russia issue. You open up the convention, and you have got a report that the Democratic Party has been hacked by the Russians, e-mails, the e-mails of the Democratic Party, which is a headline and words that you don't want, if you're Hillary Clinton's campaign.And Donald Trump immediately takes the story and basically steps on the advantage he has and say, well, the Russians, who am I to tell [Vladimir] Putin? You know, the Russians ought to come in and continue to hack our - and find out where the e-mails are.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Russia, Issues

  Source: www.pbs.org

• When the party holds the White House, all the political decisions are made in the White House. And being a party chair, you're just an artifact.

  Mark Shields

  Party, White, House

  Source: www.pbs.org

• It's fine to be an activist, but you're not - if you're not putting up candidates, if you're not getting political, if you're not in your party, then you're probably not going to have long-term change. You will probably dissipate.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Long, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Party, Believe, People

  "Shields and Brooks: Will Voters Think Democrats Have Gone Too Liberal?". PBS Newshour, www.pbs.org. July 22, 2010.

• 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.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Differences, House

  Source: www.pbs.org

• It's tempting to remember that the Tea Party had a peak and then the Republican Party establishment sort of beat it back down. And so these things are won in a day.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Tea, Down And

  Source: www.pbs.org

• For many years, we have had these campaign finance reforms, and they have been failures. Money is more coursing through our system than ever before. Incumbents have used the laws to advantage themselves. And one of the reasons I think they have been failures is we have tried to crush down the money in places like the political parties, and it has squished out into opaque super PACs and sort of hidden channels.

  Mark Shields

  Crush, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The Republicans are looking at a country that is going to be a majority minority country in just over a generation. And they are an increasingly white party.

  Mark Shields

  Country, Party, White

• The Democrats have to do what he did when [Rahm Emanuel] was chairman of the Democratic House Campaign Committee, recruit veterans, recruit football players, recruit business people. And I think that's what the job of the new party chair has to be.

  Mark Shields

  Football, Jobs, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The final thing the Tea Party had was, they fed into the philosophy that Donald Trump now embodies. So they had a different view of how the world should be governed. And so they had a lot of things that we didn't appreciate going for them as time went by.

  Mark Shields

  Philosophy, Party, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We have weakened the parties and strengthened all the special interests.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Special, Interest

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think Democrats ought to be concerned, that the party has become almost prideful about the college-educated vote that it's getting, the support that Hillary Clinton is getting against Donald Trump.

  Mark Shields

  Party, College, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Franklin Roosevelt ran on a balanced budget in 1932, and the greatest president, certainly, of the 20th century. So the idea that you lay out a predicate right now, Donald Trump has recreated the Republican Party in his image.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Ideas, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I do think what the Tea Party also had was Obamacare and the unpopularity of that, at least at the time. And so whether there is something that is equally unpopular and equally galvanizing that is almost self-destructive from the administration, that's another factor that we will wait and see.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The way to solve all the money in politics is not to pretend we can get money out of politics. That will never happen. We have to channel it in ways where we can see it and hold it accountable. And I think the parties are the best vehicle for that.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The Democrats are now an upscale party.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Democrat

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Steve Bannon went to the Conservative Political Action Conference and he said that there was a very important historical turning point, getting rid of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. And the Republican Party has stood for that for as long as I have been alive.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Long, Political

• Franklin Roosevelt had a pretty clear line. Ronald Reagan had a pretty clear line, people who rescue parties.

  Mark Shields

  Party, People, Lines

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The Sheldon Adelsons, the Koch brothers, the George Soroses, what we want to try to do is force them into the parties, not so that Kasich or whoever is going to straight to them and trying to kiss up to special interests, but so the parties have the power and they can direct the money.

  Mark Shields

  Brother, Party, Kissing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Donald Trump has taken over the Republican Party. He's transformed the Republican Party.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Taken, Republican

  Source: www.pbs.org

• [Donald] Trump, he - you know, buy American, buy American, anti-free trade, and got big cheers. They're waving Russian flags, probably partly as a joke. But, still, the party has become an ethnic nationalist party.

  Mark Shields

  Cheer, Party, Flags

• Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace and activism, and we're the party that's going to have a civilized capitalism.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Different, Lines

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Office, Republican

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Kevin McCarthy, who is the House majority leader, was pretty open. He went out and recruited candidates. And the Republicans in the House have paid a price for it ever since, because they cannot pass anything comprehensive or real because of the Freedom Caucus, which is the child, the product, the progeny of the Tea Party.

  Mark Shields

  Children, Real, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I do think, over the last years, a lot of Republicans have decided it's not working, what the party believed in, free trade, global capitalism, open borders.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Thinking, Years

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