[Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, who has given obnoxiousness a new definition in his personal behavior, oftentimes in his dealings with the press, had a very good point.
Mark ShieldsGeorge W. Bush in 2000 went to private financing for the nomination, but he accepted public funding in the general. And, quite frankly, so did - it was broken in 2008, when Barack Obama decided he wasn't going to do that.
Mark ShieldsThere is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.
Mark ShieldsThe organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.
Mark Shields