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
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
Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and… — 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
Putin has been - and with a lot of the groups, the conservative groups, the more extreme conservative groups that underlie Trump,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
On the [Andrew] Puzder point, I do agree there has been a double standard. — 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
Certainly, the country can't have two presidents at once, so the tradition has been to hang back if you're the president-elect and… — David Brooks 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
Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The incumbents just have a ton more money because they have rigged the system to help themselves, because they have these networks… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
There has never been evidence that people from these [banned] countries are disproportionately likely to commit terrorist acts. We have sent chaos… — 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
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