David Brooks

I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.

— David Brooks

Nonetheless, so whether it's unconstitutional or not [for judges to overruling presidents], I leave to others.

— David Brooks

“they both affected discerning connoisseurship over extremely prosaic things such as hamburgers and iced tea.”

— David Brooks

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

— David Brooks

As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place…

— David Brooks

Every time Kellyanne Conway goes on TV, there's another fight with whoever's interviewing her that particular day.

— David Brooks

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

— David Brooks

People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.

— David Brooks

I expect [Donald] Trump to do what he's done very successfully, which is, whether you like him or not, he will be…

— David Brooks

“Populism and elitism are the same thing. They are class prejudices, crude class prejudices that so-and-so, because they are uneducated, is less…

— David Brooks

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you…

— David Brooks

“This way, suffering becomes a fearful gift, very different from that other gift, happiness, conventionally defined. The latter brings pleasure, but the…

— David Brooks

One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the…

— David Brooks

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

— David Brooks

Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a…

— David Brooks

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

“What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (starting a career), Stephen Pinker’s cognitive…

— David Brooks

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

— David Brooks

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…

— David Brooks

One of the things I think about with Donald Trump is what are his words actually attached to? With Trump, I'm not…

— David Brooks

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

— David Brooks

My SUV, assuming Hummer comes out with a model for those who find the current ones too cramped, will look something like…

— David Brooks

The corruption will come back to haunt the Trump administration. But mostly, it'll come back to haunt the American economy, as companies…

— David Brooks

“people who succeed tend to find one goal in the distant future and then chase it through thick and thin. People who…

— David Brooks

The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

— David Brooks

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

— David Brooks

Every second we spend on talking about Sarah Palin is a second in our lives that we can never get back.

— David Brooks

I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.

— David Brooks

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

— David Brooks

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

— David Brooks

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

— David Brooks

I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

— David Brooks

“Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for pornography in half.”

— David Brooks

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.

— David Brooks

I want to limit the effects of the power of donors, no question about it.

— David Brooks

If we are going to stop wars on this earth, we are going to have to make war on hunger our number…

— David Brooks

People have been raised in a morality that says, "If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK."

— David Brooks

The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below.

— David Brooks

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

— David Brooks

Maybe you're willing to tolerate a lot of bigotry from Donald Trump if you say, just change things, just change things.

— David Brooks