I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The reason the Betsy DeVos case was the centerpiece case for the Democrats wasn't about her weakness as a knowledgeable person on… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I have seen [Betsy DeVos] present a few times. I don't really know her. But I have seen her present on education… — 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
Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she… — 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
[Betsy DeVos] is quite a smart person, capable, pretty sophisticated in subtle thought. And so to me, that puts her in the… — 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
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
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
The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Would [Betsy DeVos] be my first pick? No. Is she someone who has dedicated her life to education policy? Yes, actually, she… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think Trump's attention span is super low. I don't think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy. — 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
I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a… — 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 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
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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