Basically, less educated or high school-educated whites are going to Donald Trump. It doesn't matter what the guy does. And college-educated going… — David Brooks Clinton Copy Share Image
I would like to see an animating passion. Tim Kaine actually had a good line. What animated you before you got into… — David Brooks Animated Copy Share Image
“You should start your life with the illusion that you are completely in control of what you do. You should finish life… — David Brooks Deserved Copy Share Image
I have come to think we have to treat Donald Trump's tweets like Snapchat. It's just something that is going to go… — David Brooks Brain Copy Share Image
It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life… — David Brooks Community Copy Share Image
“First, they had good character. They were energetic, honest, and dependable. They were persistent after setbacks and acknowledged their mistakes.” — David Brooks Failure Copy Share Image
The idea that a big country is going to go out and send troops into some country to take their resources, and… — David Brooks Bigs Copy Share Image
I don't think the Palestinians are in this position they're in, divided with Hamas and the P.A., unwilling to allow - or… — David Brooks Divided 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
The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American… — David Brooks Agree Copy Share Image
You have got to have two things in education reform. You have got to have some flexibility, so people can figure out… — David Brooks Common Copy Share Image
I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping… — David Brooks Coins Copy Share Image
I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not… — David Brooks Affluent Copy Share Image
Israel is a country of six million people. They need the U.S. It used to be bipartisan on Israeli politics. You never… — David Brooks Bipartisan Copy Share Image
Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order… — David Brooks Accomplishment Copy Share Image
For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the Sanders-Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree, they're sentenced to… — David Brooks Clear Copy Share Image
People ask, quite legitimately, why [Betsy] DeVos and why not a lot of the others? But it's because it has to do… — David Brooks Asks Copy Share Image
I do think trying to live each day as a bunch of moral occasions, did I live up to what I would… — David Brooks Better life Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say philosophy and theology are dead. Brain science doesn't invent new philosophies but it helps remind us which of our… — David Brooks Brain 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
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to… — David Brooks Being successful Copy Share Image
“Nearly every parent on earth operates on the assumption that character matters a lot to the life outcomes of their children. Nearly… — David Brooks Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
“Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they… — David Brooks Character Copy Share Image
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a… — David Brooks America Copy Share Image
When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't… — David Brooks Assault Copy Share Image
Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save… — David Brooks Community Copy Share Image
I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of… — David Brooks Democracy Copy Share Image
Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance. — David Brooks America Copy Share Image
The idea that Russia felt emboldened and apparently fearless to go into our election and manipulate our own election process, whether successfully… — David Brooks Election Copy Share Image
I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the… — David Brooks Administration Copy Share Image
Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal. — David Brooks Bigger Copy Share Image
“Male desire is pretty steady and only dips in response to some invisible awareness of their partner's menstrual cycles. Studies in strip… — David Brooks Strip club Copy Share Image
I generally think the president [Donald Trump] should get his Cabinet picks, unless they're egregiously out of the range, either ethically or… — David Brooks Acceptable 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
[Donald Trump] has shifted - President [Barack] Obama has shifted American policy in a much more critical way in Israel with the… — David Brooks Barack Copy Share Image
“In the educated class even social life is a series of aptitude tests; we all must perpetually perform in accordance with the… — David Brooks Aptitude 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 Plato Copy Share Image
“There must be some supreme creative energy, he thought, that can take love and turn it into synapses and then take a… — David Brooks Creative energy Copy Share Image
I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other… — David Brooks Conscious 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 Altruistic Copy Share Image
![“I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of domestic discretionary, which is welfare, education, all the stuff the government does, parks, FBI, and it shouldn't be coming out of Medicaid.” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/501/david-brooks-644_affluent_i-agree-with-the-idea-of-cutting-budget_505126.jpg)
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