I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success. — David Brooks 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
A lot of people think Barack Obama should have responded to the Russian hacking of the U.S. elections weeks ago, months ago.… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] has shifted - President [Barack] Obama has shifted American policy in a much more critical way in Israel with the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Of course I don't know what's going on in that meeting on in the mind of Donald Trump. But I do know… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Russian hackers interfered in our elections, and we like penalized a few of them. Whatever they're doing underground, we don't know. No,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
With a normal president like President [Barack] Obama, he says a word, and that's because there has been some thought that he's… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
It's important for presidents to emotionally connect, with the country in times of crisis, but also with people in Washington. If you… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Barack Obama won such a big electoral mandate because a lot of people thought he was - transcended partisan and ideological barriers… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think the Barack Obama position and the majority position of American Jews and a lot of Americans is a two-state solution… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
There certainly is a pattern of administrations that have good transitions, George W. Bush to Barack Obama, and administrations that have really… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The fact that there could be an ISIS West Bank, the fact that the Palestinian government in Gaza doesn't even acknowledge Israel's… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Bibi Netanyahu, froze the settlements and offered to go toward a two-state solution. The Palestinians didn't take him up on it. Historically,… — 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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