Mark Shields Journalist Quotations

George Bush is trying to play it both ways.

I didn't realize the president was such an historian.

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.

I'll be happy to take on John O'Neill.

You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.