David Brooks

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

— David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

— David Brooks

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

— David Brooks

Hillary Clinton is still - she's such a private person.

— David Brooks

If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK.

— David Brooks

Plunder is morally wrong. It ruins your credibility.

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It's hard for parents just to measure schools.

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Pain now is better than pain deferred.

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People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

— David Brooks

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

— David Brooks

“It is possible to have a complex human relationship without words”

— David Brooks

It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.

— David Brooks

The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.

— David Brooks

We actually have to have a government. We have to have people confirmed and put into office.

— David Brooks

The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction.

— David Brooks

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

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“Abraham Lincoln suffered through depression through his life and then suffered through the pain of conducting a civil war, and emerged with…

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I sort of feel we have to owe some respect to the process and owe some respect to the electorate and the…

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Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run,…

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It's very hard to find an evangelical person under 45, let alone on some of the Christian college campuses, who has any…

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Would [Betsy DeVos] be my first pick? No. Is she someone who has dedicated her life to education policy? Yes, actually, she…

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“Breakfast Club, and shared the same misimpression that it was a sign of sophistication to talk about how much you loved Eames…

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We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do…

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“Emotion assigns value to things, and reason can only make choices on the basis of those valuations. The human mind can be…

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Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best…

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“The wise person is there not to be walked over but to stand up for the actual truth, to call the other…

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Donald Trump understands sense of belonging. And a lot of people think globalization, any time you make any particularity, you're sort of…

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[Mitch Daniels] was not a bad governor. He could be playful, but - or communicator.I'm just saying it will - I think…

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Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War…

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I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but…

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The corruption will come back to haunt the Trump administration. But mostly, it'll come back to haunt the American economy, as companies…

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“people who succeed tend to find one goal in the distant future and then chase it through thick and thin. People who…

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“I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other…

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“I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from…

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“she enjoyed her continued glimpses into the inner workings of world affairs. She often would sit back in the middle of some…

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Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash…

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“I’ve come to believe that wise people don’t tell us what to do; they start by witnessing our story. They take the…

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“Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds…

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“In 1997 Gary McPherson studied 157 randomly selected children as they picked out and learned a musical instrument. Some went on to…

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“Across the centuries the moral systems from medival chivalry to Bruce Springsteen love anthems have worked the same basic way. They take…

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