Mark Shields Quotes

The worst mistake Ronald Reagan ever made was to accept George W. Bush as his running mate.

I don't know Gov. Palin. I've certainly seen her, since she came on the scene, you know, running with John McCain.

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

I like Ike. But I like his running mate, Nixon, even better.

When you're the presidential nominee you get to pick whomever you choose to be on the ticket, and that person gets to say yes or no because, obviously, it's a very important decision.

Make no mistake: you're going to see a lot of Bushes.

Of course with John McCain out of the race, George W. Bush has to pick a running mate. Which is kind of a scary proposition when you think about it. I mean his dad picked Dan Quayle, an he isn't as smart as his dad.

John McCain famously has been incredibly loyal to Sarah Palin ever since he picked her as his running mate.

George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?

I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.

When George W. Bush picked Dick Cheney, it was a reassuring sign that the Texas governor would have an experienced, prudent voice at his side.

If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus's candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

I'd spent 25 years in government when I left the Defense Department back in '93, decided I'd go spend the rest of my career in the private sector, and then the president tapped me to come be his running mate. And it's been a remarkable experience. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

Vice President Cheney really knew how to bring out the cowboy in George W, Bush.

George W. Bush is conservative but he is not a conservative.

… to get the Republican nomination for President, you have to be an outsider.

I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter, that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.

Trump, of course, has been very wrong in the past about important issues such as President Barack Obama's place of birth and Mexican immigrants, but the Republican frontrunner is correct in saying that former Republican President George W. Bush did not keep the country safe during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Donald Trump picked a remarkably nice guy in Mike Pence.

In fact, Charles Koch tried to get [Mike] Pence to run for the White House in 2012.

Donald Trump told ABC news that if he had Oprah as a running mate, they could easily win. Although you know who'd definitely win? Oprah WITHOUT Donald Trump.

The 'freedom agenda' of George W. Bush's second inaugural was a noble concept - but in practice, it offered ignoble results.