You figure out, what is the crucial issue facing the country right now? And for Trump, it was that the global economy… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The gun becomes this psychological totem, this thing of who I am. And it's almost as if using the gun is going… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think as we interpret him and frankly as the world learns to interpret Donald Trump, are these just words that are… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
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… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
There has never been evidence that people from these [banned] countries are disproportionately likely to commit terrorist acts. We have sent chaos… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Your DVD collection is organized, and so is your walk-in closet. Your car is clean and vacuumed, your frequently dialed numbers are… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
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… — 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
We have an international system. We all profit from it. Trade profits from it. Peace. We can travel around the world because… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
There was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's world view is that it's a dangerous, miserable place, people are out to get him, and he needs to strike… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The politics is broken up and down. And Trump may emerge from a reality TV world that is much more powerful than… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The idea that a big country is going to go out and send troops into some country to take their resources, and… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If there is a series of attacks like that or, God forbid, if ISIS is really sending soldiers across Europe and maybe… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really… — 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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