Mark Shields Quotes

Hillary Clinton doesn't have a prayer. She does not make people feel good. She doesn't have the ability. She doesn't have the ability to be humble. It's just not in her. I mean, she's the Palace of Versailles every day in and out, and that's it.

Hillary Clinton doesn't look presidential.

The whole celebrity thing didn't work for Hillary Clinton. She tried that in her campaign and it failed.

This woman [Hillary Clinton] has been in public, has been a nationally known figure for over 30 years. Why does anybody have to tell us who she is? And why does she need to be "humanized"?

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.

I may be President of the United States but my personal life is nobody’s damn business

There's the human side of people who are in public life that connects people. Whether it's favorable or unfavorable, it gives them some connection with the person who's onstage, and I think those connections are edifying.

I've been in public life for long enough that I know you just have to live your life normally.

As Miss Universe, I made a huge effort to keep at least some areas of my life to myself.

Hillary Clinton is still - she's such a private person.

The only thing Hillary Clinton has going for herself is the press, without the press, she is absolutely zero.

Hillary Clinton's not seen as empathetic and compassionate.

Hillary Clinton is, I think, a cult figure.

Hillary Clinton is got to make the case for herself that nobody else can make, and for voters to see somebody who looks more three-dimensional, that's not simply a caricature that had been sort of a part of the American dialogue for the last 25 years.

I've never been able to control my public image.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time.

The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my supermarket basket. I could even un-tint my car windows - or at least opt for a lighter shade.

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.