Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning… — David Brooks American history Copy Share Image
The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude… — David Brooks Business Copy Share Image
We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do… — David Brooks Art Copy Share Image
“Emotion assigns value to things, and reason can only make choices on the basis of those valuations. The human mind can be… — David Brooks Emotion Copy Share Image
“Breakfast Club, and shared the same misimpression that it was a sign of sophistication to talk about how much you loved Eames… — David Brooks Art Copy Share Image
It's very hard to find an evangelical person under 45, let alone on some of the Christian college campuses, who has any… — David Brooks Campus Copy Share Image
Would [Betsy DeVos] be my first pick? No. Is she someone who has dedicated her life to education policy? Yes, actually, she… — David Brooks Dedicated 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 Agreement 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 Around the world Copy Share Image
It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive [Stanley] Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Instead, parents just have to be good enough. They have to provide their kids with stable and predictable rhythms. They need to… — David Brooks Child Copy Share Image
[Betsy DeVos] does care about charter schools, which are public schools. She does care about choice, which is a perfectly legitimate thing… — David Brooks Care Copy Share Image
“Researchers have done a lot of work over the past few years analyzing social networks. It turns out almost everything is contagious.… — 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
“[The public intellectual] will also describe how she can work a pop culture reference into her essay, comparing the Supreme Court to… — David Brooks Pop culture Copy Share Image
“Bobos are uncomfortable with universal moral laws that purport to regulate pleasure. Bobos prefer more prosaic self-controlled regimes. The things that are… — David Brooks Character Copy Share Image
I sort of feel we have to owe some respect to the process and owe some respect to the electorate and the… — David Brooks Assumption Copy Share Image
“Abraham Lincoln suffered through depression through his life and then suffered through the pain of conducting a civil war, and emerged with… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I really think of [Donald] Trump erratic. I think that was the big message that came out. The positive agenda for Hillary… — David Brooks Agendas 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 Being a teacher Copy Share Image
I've observed a few things about the few really great people I've had a chance to meet and cover...They need to be… — David Brooks Chance Copy Share Image
I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating… — 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… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge. — David Brooks Collaboration Copy Share Image
“When you explore a new landscape or visit a new country, your attention is open to everything, like a baby's. One thing… — David Brooks Patriotism 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 Emotion Copy Share Image
If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's got to do some big changes, because what he was voted on. But when you think about how to do… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need… — David Brooks Civility Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton continues to say Donald Trump's unacceptable, he doesn't have the character to be president. He is saying - continues saying… — David Brooks Character 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
I think the voters who voted for Donald Trump certainly are willing to tolerate a lot of ugliness, but maybe, if you're… — David Brooks America Copy Share Image
It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life… — David Brooks Community Copy Share Image
I have come to think we have to treat Donald Trump's tweets like Snapchat. It's just something that is going to go… — David Brooks Brain Copy Share Image
“You should start your life with the illusion that you are completely in control of what you do. You should finish life… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from… — David Brooks Behavior Copy Share Image
“First, they had good character. They were energetic, honest, and dependable. They were persistent after setbacks and acknowledged their mistakes.” — David Brooks Character 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 Debate Copy Share Image
If we're in some sort of Hobbesian state of nature, where you just want a strong man who has no compassion Donald… — David Brooks Compassion Copy Share Image
People ask, quite legitimately, why [Betsy] DeVos and why not a lot of the others? But it's because it has to do… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
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