Mark Shields Quotes

When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.

President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

To inspire the British people we need to look different, sound different, and offer something new. I believe I can do that.

Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.

The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.

You must change your approach in order to change your results.

Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.

Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution.

The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.

I worry that even those who want to reform are not quite sure how to go about it. There is so much to be done.

We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.

I do feel immigration will probably be dealt with as long as [the solution] doesn't provide amnesty ... Five years ago, all hell broke loose ... This year, I thought phones would ring off the hook again. They really haven't. I think everybody realizes we have a problem.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.

There is a wind of change, and if there is a wind of change on domestic issues, there is going to be a wind of change on Palestinian issues as well, it's not something done in one leap, it's a triple jump, but it's coming.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.