President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president. — 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
Hillary Clinton continues to say Donald Trump's unacceptable, he doesn't have the character to be president. He is saying - continues saying… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I generally think the president [Donald Trump] should get his Cabinet picks, unless they're egregiously out of the range, either ethically or… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Nonetheless, so whether it's unconstitutional or not [for judges to overruling presidents], I leave to others. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters. — 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
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
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
I don't blame the Democrats for fighting. They have got a very energized base. And there is a lot to complain about… — 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
Of course I don't know what's going on in that meeting on in the mind of Donald Trump. But I do know… — 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
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
President-elect [Donald] Trump's ambassador to Israel is further to the right than almost anyone in Israel, further to the right than Bibi… — 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 I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Russia has a very sophisticated, advanced attack on U.S. businesses and U.S. government and U.S. institutions. And it's not like Donald Trump… — 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
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
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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![“It's important for presidents to emotionally connect, with the country in times of crisis, but also with people in Washington. If you can't emotionally connect - and [Barack] Obama is not the greatest, but he can at least do it - then people won't be with you when the times are hard.” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2a6/david-brooks-644_barack_it-s-important-for-presidents-to-emotion_2274357.jpg)
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![“I don't blame the Democrats for fighting. They have got a very energized base. And there is a lot to complain about a lot of these nominees. But I think, if you are actually going to turn someone down from a president's [Donald Trump] own Cabinet, it better be a lot more egregious than the cases…” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/207/david-brooks-644_blame_i-don-t-blame-the-democrats-for-fighting_1374569.jpg)
![“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 wait for your time in office. [Donald] Trump is not a hang-back kind of guy.” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b0c/david-brooks-644_country_certainly-the-country-can-t-have-two-pre_2648045.jpg)
![“President-elect [Donald] Trump's ambassador to Israel is further to the right than almost anyone in Israel, further to the right than Bibi Netanyahu on the settlements, and almost opposes the two-state solution, doesn't he?” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c2/david-brooks-644_ambassadors_president-elect-donald-trump-s-ambassado_2861835.jpg)
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![“[Donald Trump] has shifted - President [Barack] Obama has shifted American policy in a much more critical way in Israel with the settlements than the previous presidents.” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/527/david-brooks-644_barack_donald-trump-has-shifted-president-barac_2991202.jpg)
