Mark Shields Quotes

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats.

The key to controlling your own political party, so that it does not eat you alive, is to realize that while Democratic and Republican leaders differ sharply, their voters do not.

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.

I think is interesting is that term is so pejorative or understood to be so pejorative and there's a real difference between how Republicans, it seems to me, think of that and how Democrats do. I don't think Democrats feel as negatively about the Democratic Party establishment as Republicans do feel about their party's establishment.

I have no problem if you want to be a socialist. But for those people who are in the middle, you know, I don't know if you're really welcome in the Democratic Party, and I don't even know who the Republican Party is anymore. I have absolutely no idea.

Obama destroyed this party, folks, literally has destroyed the Democratic Party while elevating himself to whatever heights, if he's really achieved them, I still don't believe it, but I'll go along with the flow for now.

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas.

We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats.

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.

The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans.

Nobody should be surprised that Republicans vote for Republican policy. Just like Democrats vote for Democrat policy.

I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

I've done work for both Democrats and Republicans.

The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

When party crackups happen, they usually involve nativism.

If I cannot find qualified Republicans, I am going to appoint Democrats.

The passion which all Democrats seem to have for writing in Republican papers, and vice versa, is something astonishing, and it is only exceeded by their unconquerable desire to censure men of their own party.

Republicans will take on people in the interest of power. Democrats will take on power in the interests of people.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.... By the turn of the century it'll be a 95 percent white Republican Party and a 99 percent black Democratic Party. That's not what we need.

It’s very hard for any one person to embrace every single aspect of any one party.

I am a proud moderate republican. But I like democrats as well.

My parents were Democrats, and I was a Democrat. And John Wayne was a Republican.