I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters. — David Brooks Cybersecurity 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
People have been raised in a morality that says, "If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK." — David Brooks Character Copy Share Image
If we are going to stop wars on this earth, we are going to have to make war on hunger our number… — David Brooks Earth Copy Share Image
The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below. — David Brooks Sometimes Copy Share Image
“Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for pornography in half.” — David Brooks Gender Copy Share Image
The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same. — David Brooks Change Copy Share Image
I want to limit the effects of the power of donors, no question about it. — David Brooks Donors Copy Share Image
“The first thing you see, covering yards and yards of one wall, is an object that looks like a nickel-plated nuclear reactor,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than… — David Brooks Covered Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you go - you achieve a few things in life. I have achieved more career success than I ever experienced or… — David Brooks Achieve Copy Share Image
You figure out, what is the crucial issue facing the country right now? And for Trump, it was that the global economy… — David Brooks Country Copy Share Image
I expect [Donald] Trump to do what he's done very successfully, which is, whether you like him or not, he will be… — David Brooks Dominant Copy Share Image
“Populism and elitism are the same thing. They are class prejudices, crude class prejudices that so-and-so, because they are uneducated, is less… — David Brooks Class warfare 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
[Donald Trump] will be the one on offense. He will be the one serving volleys, and it may be some weird stuff… — David Brooks Controlling things Copy Share Image
What you hear in focus groups and conversations, people will give you 20 minutes of rage about how the borders are out… — David Brooks Borders Copy Share Image
“They turn nature into an achievement course, a series of ordeals and obstacles they can conquer. They go into nature to behave… — David Brooks Naturalists Copy Share Image
“What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (starting a career), Stephen Pinker’s cognitive… — David Brooks Acculturation Copy Share Image
I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent… — David Brooks Addresses Copy Share Image
The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens… — David Brooks Bigs Copy Share Image
We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep… — David Brooks Aristocratic Copy Share Image
“(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he… — David Brooks Actualization Copy Share Image
If you're running a successful administration, then you're loyal to people who are basically good who make a mistake. And that seems… — David Brooks Every day 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
Donald Trump's being authentic to what he ran on and what got elected. — David Brooks Authentic Copy Share Image
The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves. — David Brooks Character Copy Share Image
I think Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana was a case of that, who was an outstanding administrator. — David Brooks Administrators Copy Share Image
I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to… — David Brooks Culture Copy Share Image
Maybe you're willing to tolerate a lot of bigotry from Donald Trump if you say, just change things, just change things. — David Brooks Bigotry Copy Share Image
There is the English language and then there's the Trump language. — David Brooks English language Copy Share Image
“You are the spiritual entity that emerges out of the material networks in your head.” — David Brooks Emerges Copy Share Image
What's interesting about the Trump administration is how bitterly divided they are in their attitudes towards Putin. — David Brooks Administration 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
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
“The main job of radicals in the Noam Chomsky or G. Gordon Liddy mode is to go around from one scruffy lecture… — David Brooks Chomsky Copy Share Image
I can't imagine that being in the Trump Cabinet will be a very important job. I do think this will be a… — David Brooks Cabinet Copy Share Image
If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working… — David Brooks Awareness Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to think [Ted] Cruz had a good convention, that if [Donald] Trump goes down, Cruz is pretty well positioned to… — David Brooks Conventions Copy Share Image
We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could… — David Brooks Claims Copy Share Image
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