Donald Trump's being authentic to what he ran on and what got elected. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
It's always dangerous to overinterpret what Donald Trump says at any one moment. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump is going to find it very hard to do the kind of massive change he wants. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is so egregious in the way he talks about women, the way he allegedly treated women. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The most interesting thing is that the White House staff and the people under Donald Trump, at least some portion of them,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's ego is like a comet the size of Jupiter just traveling through the solar system, and we all have to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
It's part of Donald Trump's psychodynamics to always care about his press coverage intensely. He's more interested in that than anything else. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If Donald Trump wants to fire somebody for not getting Obamacare repealed, he should fire himself. — 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
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 really think of [Donald] Trump erratic. I think that was the big message that came out. The positive agenda for Hillary… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I certainly hear a lot of people say that Donald Trump not only incited some bad things. He also exposed some things.… — David Brooks 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 Copy Share Image
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 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 Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is this whirling dervish of chaos. He picked a fight with Mexico. Germany is not far behind. He will pick… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If I were Donald Trump, I would definitely not pick Mitt Romney because it's very easy for Mitt Romney to have have… — 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
What's sort of remarkable is that, especially in the Israel and the Russia cases, you have got a U.S. citizen, Donald Trump,… — 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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong. — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success. — 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 on the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image