Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to think [Ted] Cruz had a good convention, that if [Donald] Trump goes down, Cruz is pretty well positioned to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Republicans are living in a hermetically sealed Republican universe, just as Democrats are. And so they're responding to their own universe, even… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The Republicans in Congress, they believe in Ronald Reagan's Republican Party, not Donald Trump Republican Party or Steve Bannon's Republican Party. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Of those two [Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump], I do think that the - right now, at least in my mind, the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Basically, global capitalism, basically to support it, or is it to be opposed? Is international order to be supported, or is it… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Donald Trump tried to set up this debate where it was going to be globalists vs. nationalists, and the Republicans were going… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The party cannot be competitive nationally unless it's competitive in California, Oregon, Washington, New England, Pennsylvania, along the coasts. And the problem… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Trump has picked the more extreme versions of all Republicans so far, the more aggressive. And I think the thing to watch… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the… — David Brooks Copy Share
When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going to be… — David Brooks Copy Share
“I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences,… — David Brooks Copy Share
We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for… — David Brooks Copy Share
I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success. — David Brooks Copy Share
If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the… — David Brooks Copy Share
Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance. — David Brooks Copy Share
Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right. — David Brooks Copy Share
It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall… — David Brooks Copy Share
I do think Donald Trump is a fundamentally unstabilizing force and that the people who swore to uphold the Constitution are going to have… — David Brooks Copy Share
Tim Kaine has been obviously a governor. He's been a senator. He's one of the smartest rising stars in the Democratic Party. He is… — David Brooks Copy Share
“Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for pornography in half.” — David Brooks Copy Share
I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life. — David Brooks Copy Share
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