It's always dangerous to overinterpret what Donald Trump says at any one moment. — 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
Mitt Romney knows a lot. He's a very professional - a consummate professional. — 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
I think the presidency is a bad way to measure the effective campaign finance, because in the presidency, there is so much… — 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
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
I really think of [Donald] Trump erratic. I think that was the big message that came out. The positive agenda for Hillary… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage. — 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
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
There will just always be a distance between you and the people around you. Now, [Hillary Clinton] can clearly emotionally connect with… — 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
It's the rising tide of enmity in the country, Donald Trump attacking judges, Donald Trump attacking John McCain, Senator [Richard] Blumenthal, the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
As for multimillionaires [in Donald Trump's Administration], a lot of us hope to be a multimillionaire some day. Again, spotty records, but… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to think [Ted] Cruz had a good convention, that if [Donald] Trump goes down, Cruz is pretty well positioned to… — 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
If Donald Trump is just tweeting about a union guy, then he's just being the bully we have seen. But if he… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
What Bannon and Trump have presented us with is an idea of America that's not been the traditional idea, not the Walt… — 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
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
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 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
I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success. — 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
Donald Trump's being authentic to what he ran on and what got elected. — 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
![“Even in this nuclear thing, [ Donald Trump] says we should be stronger and expand. What does that mean? So, what is concrete in what he's saying?” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25f/david-brooks-644_concrete_even-in-this-nuclear-thing-donald-trump_1490054.png)
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![“It's the rising tide of enmity in the country, Donald Trump attacking judges, Donald Trump attacking John McCain, Senator [Richard] Blumenthal, the town halls, the riots in Berkeley. You have got the incivility on the floor of the United States Senate. You have got just a rising tide, every single…” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/950/david-brooks-644_attacking_it-s-the-rising-tide-of-enmity-in-the-co_1528117.jpg)
![“As for multimillionaires [in Donald Trump's Administration], a lot of us hope to be a multimillionaire some day. Again, spotty records, but it seems to be not without the range.” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f0/david-brooks-644_administration_as-for-multimillionaires-in-donald-trump_742164.png)
![“I'm beginning to think [Ted] Cruz had a good convention, that if [Donald] Trump goes down, Cruz is pretty well positioned to be the Republican major figure in four, six or even within two years.” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9de/david-brooks-644_conventions_i-m-beginning-to-think-ted-cruz-had-a-go_674746.jpg)
![“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/i/44f/david-brooks-644_behavior_i-m-not-sure-donald-trump-has-had-that-d_696868.jpg)
