The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even… — David Brooks Activity 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 Agree 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… — David Brooks Accomplishments 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… — David Brooks Language Copy Share Image
I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success. — David Brooks Barack 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… — David Brooks Awareness 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 America 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… — David Brooks Differences 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… — David Brooks Community 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… — David Brooks Constitution 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 Democratic Copy Share Image
“Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for pornography in half.” — David Brooks Gender Copy Share Image
I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life. — David Brooks Another life Copy Share Image
“They turn nature into an achievement course, a series of ordeals and obstacles they can conquer. They go into nature to behave… — David Brooks Nature Copy Share Image
I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters. — David Brooks Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character… — David Brooks Building Copy Share Image
The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves. — David Brooks Achieve 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 Ambiguity Copy Share Image
When you talk about the problem of illegal immigration, people are angry and polarized. When you talk about the answers, the debate… — David Brooks Angry Copy Share Image
The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves. — David Brooks Core 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 Conservative Copy Share Image
