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
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 incumbents just have a ton more money because they have rigged the system to help themselves, because they have these networks… — David Brooks Amount Copy Share Image
“Many of these policies were proposed by wonks who are comfortable only with traits and correlations that can be measured and quantified.… — David Brooks 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
We are all fundamentally equal souls, and if you make a zillion dollars, you're not any better than anybody else spiritually. You're… — David Brooks Dollars Copy Share Image
“They say that foreplay for a woman is anything that happens twenty-four hours before intercourse.” — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Clearly, politics is a team sport. Trump is not so much of a team player. — David Brooks Player Copy Share Image
Republicans are living in a hermetically sealed Republican universe, just as Democrats are. And so they're responding to their own universe, even… — David Brooks Democracy Copy Share Image
I think the twenty-first century happened, basically. That this century started on 9/11. And basically, it's been a century of counter reaction… — David Brooks Around the world Copy Share Image
Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning… — David Brooks American history Copy Share Image
Barack Obama won such a big electoral mandate because a lot of people thought he was - transcended partisan and ideological barriers… — David Brooks Able Copy Share Image
The things that make them similar - their machismo, their expansionary braggadocio - is going to turn them I think into bitter… — David Brooks Bitter Copy Share Image
If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model. — David Brooks Fit Copy Share Image
Economists sometimes do try to reduce behavior to law-like predictability. But people respond differently to different primes, to different contexts even from… — David Brooks Behavior Copy Share Image
There will just always be a distance between you and the people around you. Now, [Hillary Clinton] can clearly emotionally connect with… — David Brooks Clinton Copy Share Image
Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they… — David Brooks Actualization Copy Share Image
When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas… — David Brooks Character Copy Share Image
Since 2005, a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, have said it was wrong and a mistake to go into Iraq. — David Brooks Iraq Copy Share Image
Donald Trump tried to set up this debate where it was going to be globalists vs. nationalists, and the Republicans were going… — David Brooks Debate Copy Share Image
Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to… — David Brooks Ego 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
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 idea that when you correct a fact, you erase that fact from people's memories is the reverse of the truth. When… — David Brooks Erase Copy Share Image
People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time. — David Brooks Inspirational Copy Share Image
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