“To get the most attention, the essay should be wrong. Logical essays are read and understood. But an illogical or wrong essay… — David Brooks Books Copy Share Image
Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just… — David Brooks Class Copy Share Image
When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they… — David Brooks Class Copy Share Image
I do think Donald Trump is a fundamentally unstabilizing force and that the people who swore to uphold the Constitution are going… — David Brooks Constitution Copy Share Image
On the [Betsy] DeVos case, I agree that the gun - her gun position is kind of weird, kind of crazy, but… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If you withdraw from the game, you're out of the game. And we have withdrawn from the game. And we said Bashar… — David Brooks Israel 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 Copy Share Image
Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You… — David Brooks Childhood 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 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 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
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
I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not… — David Brooks 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 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 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 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 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
“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
[Donald Trump] has shifted - President [Barack] Obama has shifted American policy in a much more critical way in Israel with the… — David Brooks 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
“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 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 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
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
The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American… — David Brooks 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
I don't blame the Democrats for fighting. They have got a very energized base. And there is a lot to complain about… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Bibi Netanyahu, froze the settlements and offered to go toward a two-state solution. The Palestinians didn't take him up on it. Historically,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
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![“Israel is a country of six million people. They need the U.S. It used to be bipartisan on Israeli politics. You never messed with that relationship. The fact that [ Benjamin] Netanyahu is willing to do that, I thought would horrify voters more than it turned out it did.” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/david-brooks-644_bipartisan_israel-is-a-country-of-six-million-peopl_1170579.png)
![“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/i/501/david-brooks-644_affluent_i-agree-with-the-idea-of-cutting-budget_505126.jpg)
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![“I don't blame the Democrats for fighting. They have got a very energized base. And there is a lot to complain about a lot of these nominees. But I think, if you are actually going to turn someone down from a president's [Donald Trump] own Cabinet, it better be a lot more egregious than the cases…” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/207/david-brooks-644_blame_i-don-t-blame-the-democrats-for-fighting_1374569.jpg)
