Donald Trump is sitting on the control deck of the starship Enterprise, and he can push a lot of pretty buttons, but… — David Brooks Business Copy Share Image
Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed… — David Brooks Calling Copy Share Image
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of… — David Brooks Atheism 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
If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things… — David Brooks Buying Copy Share Image
Obamacare is woven into the fabric of health care. It's very hard to just rip it out, as Donald Trump sort of… — David Brooks Care Copy Share Image
Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a… — David Brooks Conservative Copy Share Image
“most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the… — David Brooks Counseling 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
“Everybody is comparing the oil spill to Hurricane Katrina, but the real parallel could be the Iranian hostage crisis. In the late… — David Brooks Climate 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 Country Copy Share Image
Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are… — David Brooks Busy Copy Share Image
I, personally, think Trump improved pretty dramatically and certainly changed pretty dramatically over the last hundred days. He's less of the populist.… — David Brooks Changed Copy Share Image
“The only thing that remained distinct about Grace, through it all, was his equipoise. He never lost his cool. He never snapped… — David Brooks Coolness Copy Share Image
I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a… — David Brooks Believe Copy Share Image
People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured… — David Brooks Atrocities Copy Share Image
The Republicans in Congress, they believe in Ronald Reagan's Republican Party, not Donald Trump Republican Party or Steve Bannon's Republican Party. — David Brooks Believe Copy Share Image
We still are America though. We're still a country that is a country of social mobility. We're still a country of immigrants.… — David Brooks America Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has become an ethnic nationalist party. — David Brooks Nationalist Copy Share Image
“They say that foreplay for a woman is anything that happens twenty-four hours before intercourse.” — David Brooks Foreplay Copy Share Image
People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time. — David Brooks Inspirational Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is so egregious in the way he talks about women, the way he allegedly treated women. — David Brooks Donald trump Copy Share Image
It's always dangerous to overinterpret what Donald Trump says at any one moment. — David Brooks Dangerous Copy Share Image
When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility. — David Brooks Credibility 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 Attention Copy Share Image
The more attention Hillary Clinton gives to the country, the less people seem to like her. — David Brooks Attention 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 Ambassadors Copy Share Image
No matter where you are on politics, I think it is wonderful to see candidates funding campaigns not by talking to a… — David Brooks Campaigns Copy Share Image
A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants… — David Brooks Choice Copy Share Image
“David Buss's survey suggest that kindness is the most important quality desired in a sexual partner by both men and women.” — David Brooks Kindness Copy Share Image
“a statement by Bertrand Russell ... embodies the tone of heroic denunciation that you can muster only if you have drunk deeply… — David Brooks Denunciation 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 Cleanliness Copy Share Image
America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce,… — David Brooks America Copy Share Image
The madman theory is that you can be a successful deterrer if you - if they think you could be crazy. And… — David Brooks Being crazy Copy Share Image
“Poorer children grow up with more stress and more disruption, and these disadvantages produce effects on the brain. Researchers often use dull… — David Brooks Children Copy Share Image
Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High… — David Brooks America Copy Share Image
The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require… — David Brooks Faces Copy Share Image
There has never been evidence that people from these [banned] countries are disproportionately likely to commit terrorist acts. We have sent chaos… — David Brooks Administration Copy Share Image
I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but… — David Brooks Attacking 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 Business Copy Share Image
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