The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide e…

- Mark Shields

There's nothing wrong with being organized.Things that change history tend to be organized.

- Mark Shields

George Washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and Richard Nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. Donald Trump is t…

- Mark Shields

I thought Mike Pence, upon reflection to me, came across a little bit like your favorite aunt who refuses, in spite of first-person evidence that gra…

- Mark Shields

The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.

- Mark Shields

I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene.

- Mark Shields

When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage…

- Mark Shields

Drones are sort of the perfect weapon for a country that doesn't want to go to war. It only - there's no fingerprint. There's no direct involvement. …

- Mark Shields

I have my disagreements with President Obama, but President Obama has run an amazingly scandal-free administration, not only he himself, but the peop…

- Mark Shields