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
Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety. — 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
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 people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed… — 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
Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
No matter where you are on politics, I think it is wonderful to see candidates funding campaigns not by talking to a… — 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
I think there are two basic approaches you can use for campaign finance. One is complete openness, everybody knows absolutely everything, but… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce,… — 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
People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least… — 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
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 effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate. — 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
People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got… — 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'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
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
Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High… — 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
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 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
How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character… — 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
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
For us going forward, it's to not reverse the dynamism of American society and the diversity. It's to pay attention to the… — 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
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
We have an international system. We all profit from it. Trade profits from it. Peace. We can travel around the world because… — 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 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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