Mark Shields Quotes

The Republican party should have learned its lesson -- that it must be a conservative party.

Conservatism has always been an expression of American business

What Trump represents is a restoration - a restoration of true American capitalism.

Everyone who knows me, they know that I am not a socialist.

Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.

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. 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.

What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under threat even in old-established democracies such as Britain. Western supremacy is on the skids. But everyone does capitalism. Americans and Europeans do it. Indians do it. Russian oligarchs and Saudi princes do it. Even Chinese communists do it... Karl Marx would be turning in his grave. Or perhaps not, since some of his writings eerily foreshadowed our era of globalised capitalism. His prescription failed but his description was prescient.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

One growing threat to the stability of the U.S. economy, and therefore to its capability to continue to direct the global order, paradoxically emerges from its success in establishing capitalism around the world.

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

The Republican and Democratic parties are alike capitalist parties — differing only in being committed to different sets of capitalist interests.

How did the progressive Republican Party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Eisenhower become the reactionary party of Ronald Reagan, the tea party and Paul Ryan? There is nothing random about these ideological shifts. They reflect the party’s — and the nation’s — central unresolved problem: the tension between equality of opportunity and protection of private property.

There are some Republicans in Congress who have leaned so far to the right, that they could fall out of the Capitol.

Obviously, Paul Ryan is not an 'America first' guy.

I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress.

Paul Ryan is the gold standard for conservatism.

In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.

Senator McConnell is by all accounts a decent person. He's pretty conservative, too.

As Republicans, our challenge is to become a pro-market party and not be a pro-business party.

My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right.

We are turning all Bolivians into capitalists.

I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that's brought people out of poverty.

While it has been mostly unreported, Mr. Trump has embraced the LGBT community like no other GOP nominee in history.

We are not communists.

I think of myself as a democratic capitalist, although I think the word 'socialism' loses its meaning every time that it is used to describe literally any policy left of far right by the current Republicans.