“You are the spiritual entity that emerges out of the material networks in your head.” — David Brooks Copy Share Image
What's interesting about the Trump administration is how bitterly divided they are in their attitudes towards Putin. — David Brooks Administration Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's being authentic to what he ran on and what got elected. — David Brooks Authentic Copy Share Image
If it's all win-loss, then you do whatever you can to win and to make money and to beat the deal. — David Brooks Making money Copy Share Image
The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves. — David Brooks Character Copy Share Image
Clearly, politics is a team sport. Trump is not so much of a team player. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana was a case of that, who was an outstanding administrator. — David Brooks Administrators Copy Share Image
I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to… — David Brooks Culture Copy Share Image
I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I'm pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding… — David Brooks Anxiety Copy Share Image
The madman theory is that you can be a successful deterrer if you - if they think you could be crazy. And… — David Brooks Being crazy Copy Share Image
“The first thing you see, covering yards and yards of one wall, is an object that looks like a nickel-plated nuclear reactor,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working… — David Brooks Awareness Copy Share Image
We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could… — 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
Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or… — David Brooks Action Copy Share Image
We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep… — David Brooks Aristocratic Copy Share Image
“(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he… — David Brooks Actualization Copy Share Image
If you're running a successful administration, then you're loyal to people who are basically good who make a mistake. And that seems… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The things that make them similar - their machismo, their expansionary braggadocio - is going to turn them I think into bitter… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they… — David Brooks Actualization Copy Share Image
The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens… — 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 Childhood Copy Share Image
The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Even in this nuclear thing, [ Donald Trump] says we should be stronger and expand. What does that mean? So, what is… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
On the larger issue of the travel ban, our friend Charles Krauthammer of The Washington Post I think put it pretty well.… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] will be the one on offense. He will be the one serving volleys, and it may be some weird stuff… — David Brooks Controlling things Copy Share Image
The government is supposed to provide a level playing field where people can compete fairly. It's not supposed to cut deals with… — David Brooks Company Copy Share Image
What Bannon and Trump have presented us with is an idea of America that's not been the traditional idea, not the Walt… — David Brooks Abraham Copy Share Image
“The main job of radicals in the Noam Chomsky or G. Gordon Liddy mode is to go around from one scruffy lecture… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I can't imagine that being in the Trump Cabinet will be a very important job. I do think this will be a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Tim Kaine has been obviously a governor. He's been a senator. He's one of the smartest rising stars in the Democratic Party.… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
There will just always be a distance between you and the people around you. Now, [Hillary Clinton] can clearly emotionally connect with… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“But over the years I came to realize that living in a detached way is, in fact, a withdrawal from life, an… — David Brooks Community Copy Share Image
I am not a Jew for Jesus but I am definitely a Jew for Christmas. Christmas is one of the best things… — David Brooks Best things Copy Share Image
“Koch was not one for grand plans. He just made constant adjustments. He always used the word 'stewardship' to describe his leadership… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
As for multimillionaires [in Donald Trump's Administration], a lot of us hope to be a multimillionaire some day. Again, spotty records, but… — David Brooks Administration Copy Share Image
I think the presidency is a bad way to measure the effective campaign finance, because in the presidency, there is so much… — David Brooks Campaign finance Copy Share Image
Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known… — David Brooks Blessed Copy Share Image
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![“[Donald Trump] will be the one on offense. He will be the one serving volleys, and it may be some weird stuff about the Russians, but he will be controlling things a little more than he probably did over the last two weeks.” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cc6/david-brooks-644_controlling-things_donald-trump-will-be-the-one-on-offense_1771740.jpg)
![“There will just always be a distance between you and the people around you. Now, [Hillary Clinton] can clearly emotionally connect with her intimates within the zone of trust. It's just the wall outside the zone of trust is so impermeable.” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/515/david-brooks-644_clinton_there-will-just-always-be-a-distance-bet_3111339.png)
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