When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got… — David Brooks Interesting Copy Share Image
The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born. — David Brooks Born Copy Share Image
If it's all win-loss, then you do whatever you can to win and to make money and to beat the deal. — David Brooks Making money Copy Share Image
Every time Kellyanne Conway goes on TV, there's another fight with whoever's interviewing her that particular day. — David Brooks Fighting Copy Share Image
Bibi Netanyahu, froze the settlements and offered to go toward a two-state solution. The Palestinians didn't take him up on it. Historically,… — David Brooks Barack 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 Ancestor Copy Share Image
“Harrison had turned social awkwardness into a form of social power.” — David Brooks Social awkwardness Copy Share Image
Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle. — David Brooks Affair Copy Share Image
Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm. — David Brooks Agency Copy Share Image
I've argued that Trump's biggest success in his first 100 days was to keep the Russia story at bay, toss out whatever… — David Brooks Success Copy Share Image
“Abraham Lincoln suffered through depression through his life and then suffered through the pain of conducting a civil war, and emerged with… — David Brooks Abraham lincoln Copy Share Image
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
“The number of her acquaintances multiplied over the years as the number of her true friendships diminished. The Grant Longitudinal Study found… — David Brooks Friendship 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 Bertrand Russell 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
For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a… — David Brooks Arms Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney knows a lot. He's a very professional - a consummate professional. — David Brooks Knows Copy Share Image
Certainly, the country can't have two presidents at once, so the tradition has been to hang back if you're the president-elect and… — David Brooks Country Copy Share Image
The government is supposed to provide a level playing field where people can compete fairly. It's not supposed to cut deals with… — David Brooks Company Copy Share Image
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 Democratic Copy Share Image
A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but… — David Brooks Achieve Copy Share Image
It's part of Donald Trump's psychodynamics to always care about his press coverage intensely. He's more interested in that than anything else. — David Brooks Care Copy Share Image
“Plato believed the soul was divided into three parts: reason, spirit, and appetite. Reason seeks truth and wants the best for the… — David Brooks Spirituality Copy Share Image
