Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president. — David Brooks Community 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
I do think Hillary Clinton should have pivoted and say, I am change, I am change, because people do want some change. — David Brooks Change Copy Share Image
“Thankfulness,” the Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael Ramsey, said, “is a soil in which pride does not easily grow.”9” — David Brooks Archbishop 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
The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers. — David Brooks Makers Copy Share Image
The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born. — David Brooks Born Copy Share Image
If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect. — David Brooks Country Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is this whirling dervish of chaos. He picked a fight with Mexico. Germany is not far behind. He will pick… — David Brooks Behinds 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
“This way, suffering becomes a fearful gift, very different from that other gift, happiness, conventionally defined. The latter brings pleasure, but the… — David Brooks Character Copy Share Image
I think there are two basic approaches you can use for campaign finance. One is complete openness, everybody knows absolutely everything, but… — David Brooks Approach Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a… — David Brooks Administration Copy Share Image
One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the… — David Brooks Capitalism Copy Share Image
I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I'm pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding… — David Brooks Anxiety Copy Share Image
The gun becomes this psychological totem, this thing of who I am. And it's almost as if using the gun is going… — David Brooks Differences Copy Share Image
Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best… — David Brooks About yourself Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War… — David Brooks Alliances Copy Share Image
One of the things I think about with Donald Trump is what are his words actually attached to? With Trump, I'm not… — David Brooks Argument Copy Share Image
I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a… — David Brooks Believe Copy Share Image
My SUV, assuming Hummer comes out with a model for those who find the current ones too cramped, will look something like… — David Brooks Assuming Copy Share Image
We know the 65-point policy points, to the extent that they exist, but is Hillary Clinton willing to be vulnerable, is she… — David Brooks Clinton 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 Education Copy Share Image
The corruption will come back to haunt the Trump administration. But mostly, it'll come back to haunt the American economy, as companies… — David Brooks Administration Copy Share Image
I do think creating an open free-trade economy but with strong social support is the way to go. — David Brooks Creating Copy Share Image
The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves. — David Brooks Achieve Copy Share Image
“Flourishing depends on unconscious skills that serve as a pre-requisite for conscious accomplishments.” — David Brooks Equality Copy Share Image
Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way. — David Brooks Emotion Copy Share Image
Nonetheless, so whether it's unconstitutional or not [for judges to overruling presidents], I leave to others. — David Brooks Judging Copy Share Image
“they both affected discerning connoisseurship over extremely prosaic things such as hamburgers and iced tea.” — David Brooks Iced tea Copy Share Image
People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems. — David Brooks Complementary Copy Share Image
I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera. — David Brooks Blowhards 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
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
People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles. — David Brooks Commonalities Copy Share Image
The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves. — David Brooks Core Copy Share Image
We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness. — David Brooks Awareness Copy Share Image
As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place… — David Brooks Cameras Copy Share Image
I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control. — David Brooks Littles Copy Share Image
I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life. — David Brooks Another life Copy Share Image
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