People who don't like Trump really don't like Trump. And I guess I'm among them. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
You figure out, what is the crucial issue facing the country right now? And for Trump, it was that the global economy… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Populists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they… — 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… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When you talk about the problem of illegal immigration, people are angry and polarized. When you talk about the answers, the debate… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascinating figure.We say Nixonian about a lot of people. He really is Nixonian. He's brilliant. He's very isolated… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Big Brother is not the only danger facing the country. Another is the rising tide of distrust, the corrosive spread of cynicism,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a… — 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… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
What you hear in focus groups and conversations, people will give you 20 minutes of rage about how the borders are out… — David Brooks 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 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 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
We know the 65-point policy points, to the extent that they exist, but is Hillary Clinton willing to be vulnerable, is she… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
You have a country that is 20 percent liberal, 40 percent conservative. You have a country where maybe 22 percent have faith… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is sort of an Orwellian figure, an authoritarian figure who is twisting words in an Orwellian manner, "1984," to exercise… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm not sure [Donald] Trump has had that distinction between private and public life in his head. And so, I think there's… — 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
Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge. — David Brooks 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 Copy Share Image
The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them. — 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 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… — 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… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I do think Hillary Clinton should have pivoted and say, I am change, I am change, because people do want some change. — David Brooks 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
The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles. — 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
![“I'm not sure [Donald] Trump has had that distinction between private and public life in his head. And so, I think there's likely to be an erosion of just that standard, that different standard, consciousness, and I think it's likely we'll see what we haven't seen in the last eight years and even…” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/44f/david-brooks-644_behavior_i-m-not-sure-donald-trump-has-had-that-d_696868.jpg)
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