People who don't like Trump really don't like Trump. And I guess I'm among them. — David Brooks People Copy Share Image
I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's… — David Brooks Circumstances Copy Share Image
You have to have a plan, or else you're just creating a recipe for chaos. — David Brooks Chaos Copy Share Image
People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic. They have some issue. They have some interest. It… — David Brooks Amount Copy Share Image
Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or… — David Brooks Action Copy Share Image
It's very hard to find an evangelical person under 45, let alone on some of the Christian college campuses, who has any… — David Brooks Campus Copy Share Image
Every second we spend on talking about Sarah Palin is a second in our lives that we can never get back. — David Brooks Every second Copy Share Image
“Bobos are uncomfortable with universal moral laws that purport to regulate pleasure. Bobos prefer more prosaic self-controlled regimes. The things that are… — David Brooks Character Copy Share Image
My colleague Ross Douthat wrote that any time you give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, he always lets you down. — David Brooks Benefit of the doubt Copy Share Image
“people who succeed tend to find one goal in the distant future and then chase it through thick and thin. People who… — David Brooks Goals Copy Share Image
“Koch was not one for grand plans. He just made constant adjustments. He always used the word 'stewardship' to describe his leadership… — David Brooks Leadership Copy Share Image
Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she… — David Brooks Care Copy Share Image
I want to try to make big films that hopefully connect with people. — David Brooks Bigs Copy Share Image
“Why, over the past two decades, have we seen this epidemic of loneliness and meanness, this breakdown in the social fabric? We… — David Brooks Caring Copy Share Image
There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to… — David Brooks Country Copy Share Image
The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they… — David Brooks Clinton 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 Deepwater-horizon-oil-spill Copy Share Image
For those of us who believe in it, there has to be a movement that says, "We still believe in trade. We… — David Brooks Believe Copy Share Image
This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so… — David Brooks Causes Copy Share Image
“Life is much bigger than we think, cause and effect intertwined in a vast moral structure that keeps pushing us to do… — David Brooks Cause and effect Copy Share Image
What Bannon and Trump have presented us with is an idea of America that's not been the traditional idea, not the Walt… — David Brooks Abraham Copy Share Image
“People tend to want to live up to their friends’ high regard.” — David Brooks Expectations Copy Share Image
“Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit… — David Brooks Body-politic Copy Share Image
