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 Barack Copy Share Image
Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety. — David Brooks Commanders Copy Share Image
I think actually in any party it's a sign of general health to have different views, and especially on the subject of… — David Brooks Different Copy Share Image
“Instead, parents just have to be good enough. They have to provide their kids with stable and predictable rhythms. They need to… — David Brooks Children Copy Share Image
“You should start your life with the illusion that you are completely in control of what you do. You should finish life… — David Brooks Life Copy Share Image
The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level. — David Brooks Autobiography Copy Share Image
If Donald Trump wants to fire somebody for not getting Obamacare repealed, he should fire himself. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I would like to see an animating passion. Tim Kaine actually had a good line. What animated you before you got into… — David Brooks Animated Copy Share Image
Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being. — David Brooks Happiness 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
With a normal president like President [Barack] Obama, he says a word, and that's because there has been some thought that he's… — David Brooks Adviser Copy Share Image
“But we don’t merely meet each other as unique individuals or in healthy social circumstances. We meet each other in the current… — David Brooks Community Copy Share Image
“Deciding whom to love is an inherently emotional business.” — David Brooks Business Copy Share Image
When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't… — David Brooks Assault Copy Share Image
Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you… — David Brooks Acknowledge Copy Share Image
I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable. — David Brooks Behavior Copy Share Image
Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object… — David Brooks Chocolate Copy Share Image
The most interesting thing is that the White House staff and the people under Donald Trump, at least some portion of them,… — David Brooks House Copy Share Image
If we're in some sort of Hobbesian state of nature, where you just want a strong man who has no compassion Donald… — David Brooks Compassion 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
“Nearly every parent on earth operates on the assumption that character matters a lot to the life outcomes of their children. Nearly… — David Brooks Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate. — David Brooks Communicate Copy Share Image
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