Thinking Quotes by David Brooks

I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.

— David Brooks

I think globalization has been really good for America.

— David Brooks

I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

— David Brooks

Personally, I think Mitt Romney would be a great secretary of state.

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I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.

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It's impossible for one person to think of everything.

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We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

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I think Donald Trump is going to find it very hard to do the kind of massive change he wants.

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I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I'm pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding…

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I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they…

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I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

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I really think of [Donald] Trump erratic. I think that was the big message that came out. The positive agenda for Hillary…

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I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.

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I think Trump's attention span is super low. I don't think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy.

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I think the presidency is a bad way to measure the effective campaign finance, because in the presidency, there is so much…

— David Brooks

The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require…

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I think there are two basic approaches you can use for campaign finance. One is complete openness, everybody knows absolutely everything, but…

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The madman theory is that you can be a successful deterrer if you - if they think you could be crazy. And…

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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…

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We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to…

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I think as we interpret him and frankly as the world learns to interpret Donald Trump, are these just words that are…

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I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan…

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No matter where you are on politics, I think it is wonderful to see candidates funding campaigns not by talking to a…

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If I were Donald Trump, I would definitely not pick Mitt Romney because it's very easy for Mitt Romney to have have…

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Russian hackers interfered in our elections, and we like penalized a few of them. Whatever they're doing underground, we don't know. No,…

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I think the twenty-first century happened, basically. That this century started on 9/11. And basically, it's been a century of counter reaction…

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I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent…

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We know the 65-point policy points, to the extent that they exist, but is Hillary Clinton willing to be vulnerable, is she…

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I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a…

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Donald Trump understands sense of belonging. And a lot of people think globalization, any time you make any particularity, you're sort of…

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For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the Sanders-Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree, they're sentenced to…

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On the larger issue of the travel ban, our friend Charles Krauthammer of The Washington Post I think put it pretty well.…

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I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other…

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I do think Donald Trump is a fundamentally unstabilizing force and that the people who swore to uphold the Constitution are going…

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On the [Betsy] DeVos case, I agree that the gun - her gun position is kind of weird, kind of crazy, but…

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I do think creating an open free-trade economy but with strong social support is the way to go.

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I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the…

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I do think Hillary Clinton should have pivoted and say, I am change, I am change, because people do want some change.

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Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance.

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I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of…

— David Brooks