Mark Shields Quotes

If you are a Rothschild, a Rosenwald, a Gimbel, or even a Waldbaum, growing up Jewish can be a rich experience. For the rest of us, it could be just so-so.

I don't know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House.

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

I don't cheer for anyone because my job is obviously more important, but the reason why I got into sports is because of my father. He's a giant sports fan and we are from New England, so he cheered for the Celtics and the Red Sox.

I'm from a family of six men, so I'm bound to be physical.

I know plenty of people with kids in elite, private schools and had heard many stories. I have drifted into the homes of some of those very wealthy families in New York and am fascinated with the dynamic and how much freedom the children are given.

I lived in Beverly Hills for years. I always had a line, 'I hate the rich.' From what I witnessed after living there for 15 years, these people just don't raise their kids. I used to see the lineup of cars in front of the schools and it was all the nannies.

My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people of the United States, and nowhere to go but the White House or home.

There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.

When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.

Bernie, my boyfriend Bill Clinton, is going to be President of the United States.

George McGovern, why, he couldn't carry Texas even if they caught Dick Nixon fucking a Fort Worth sow.

Unfortunately it has come to pass that we choose our Presidents because of their vote-getting qualities in certain doubtful states rather than for their qualifications for the office they are to fill.

Nixon is the last candidate who couldn’t make it on the Johnny Carson Show who could make it in an election.

It's very, very humbling, and I couldn't be more honored to have the opportunity to run with, and serve with, the next president of the United States.

If Bush does make it to the White House, he and Laura should have Ken Starr over for dinner.

Conservatives looking at presidential candidates have to ask what kind of leader they want sitting in the White House.

People presume that just because I am Shahid Kapoor's brother, I must have studied in an international school, gone out on foreign vacations, and had a certain kind of upbringing. But the truth is quite different, and I am very proud of where I come from.

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

I come from a very affluent family. I have been educated in one of the finest institutions of the world. Money was never a factor in my life: by the grace of God, I was blessed with a golden spoon.

I went to quite a nice school as a kid, where everyone was quite posh, because my dad was making some money.