Mitt Romney knows a lot. He's a very professional - a consummate professional. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
People who don't like Trump really don't like Trump. And I guess I'm among them. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
It's always dangerous to overinterpret what Donald Trump says at any one moment. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong. — 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
Donald Trump is so egregious in the way he talks about women, the way he allegedly treated women. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I expect [Donald] Trump to do what he's done very successfully, which is, whether you like him or not, he will be… — 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
I think Donald Trump is going to find it very hard to do the kind of massive change he wants. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Even in this nuclear thing, [ Donald Trump] says we should be stronger and expand. What does that mean? So, what is… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road. — 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
I've argued that Trump's biggest success in his first 100 days was to keep the Russia story at bay, toss out whatever… — 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
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
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
Donald Trump is this whirling dervish of chaos. He picked a fight with Mexico. Germany is not far behind. He will pick… — 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
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
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
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
Donald Trump understands sense of belonging. And a lot of people think globalization, any time you make any particularity, you're sort of… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent… — 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
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
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
For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the Sanders-Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree, they're sentenced to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Clearly, politics is a team sport. Trump is not so much of a team player. — 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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