Mark Shields Quotes

Donald Trump may be unusually flamboyant, but his views are all too representative of the party that is about to nominate him for president.

As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.

The Republicans have a “me too” candidate running on a “yes but” platform, advised by a “has been” staff.

Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

I agree with Sen. Rand Paul on issues more than I do Mitch McConnell.

There are fewer and fewer Republicans.

The Republican Party has become the party of one branch of one religion.

This must be a contingent of Republicans.

My view is that Trump will not change the Republican Party, America's right-of-center party. If he brings in new followers, that's great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.

I think that Rand Paul represents a segment of the GOP, just like his father. And I think he is trying to expand that, intelligently, to make it larger.

I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.

I would almost certainly vote for Trump if I was American.

Let's think about where things stood in December 2015. By that time, Republicans had already had such epic and long-standing struggles with young people that I'd written a whole book about it. Additionally, Republicans had already had a bruising start to their primary season.

For there to be any redemption of a right of center conservative party in the United States of America means the party of Trump must be destroyed politically.

I stood by Ted Cruz in 2012. I endorsed President Trump in 2016.

The Republican Party has become an ethnic nationalist party.

The Democratic Party has become the party of Bernie Sanders, I mean they are the progressives. That's who control.

I'm more of a Tea Party person.

The Republican Party is the party of national security. There's hardly a national security wing of the Democratic Party anymore. So if we turn away from it, that'll be a big problem.

His [Donald Trump]support is crossing wide swaths of the party. It's not just the evangelicals. It's the moderates, as well.

I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform.

Truthfully, with the Republicans, I don't see that much wrong with them.

Let the RINOs start a third party

[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.