David Brooks

I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition.

— David Brooks

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

— David Brooks

You have got to be loyal to people beneath you.

— David Brooks

We're no longer living in Tammany Hall America.

— David Brooks

... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

— David Brooks

Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.

— David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

— David Brooks

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

— David Brooks

A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants…

— David Brooks

People who don't like Trump really don't like Trump. And I guess I'm among them.

— David Brooks

If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong.

— David Brooks

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

— David Brooks

People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.

— David Brooks

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

— David Brooks

“Joy is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes.”

— David Brooks

“They say that foreplay for a woman is anything that happens twenty-four hours before intercourse.”

— David Brooks

“When you explore a new landscape or visit a new country, your attention is open to everything, like a baby's. One thing…

— David Brooks

I've observed a few things about the few really great people I've had a chance to meet and cover...They need to be…

— David Brooks

I really think of [Donald] Trump erratic. I think that was the big message that came out. The positive agenda for Hillary…

— David Brooks

The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world,…

— David Brooks

I think the voters who voted for Donald Trump certainly are willing to tolerate a lot of ugliness, but maybe, if you're…

— David Brooks

Hillary Clinton continues to say Donald Trump's unacceptable, he doesn't have the character to be president. He is saying - continues saying…

— David Brooks

Donald Trump's world view is that it's a dangerous, miserable place, people are out to get him, and he needs to strike…

— David Brooks

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need…

— David Brooks

Donald Trump understands sense of belonging. And a lot of people think globalization, any time you make any particularity, you're sort of…

— David Brooks

[Mitch Daniels] was not a bad governor. He could be playful, but - or communicator.I'm just saying it will - I think…

— David Brooks

This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making , a romantic interlude in the…

— David Brooks

There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have…

— David Brooks

The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular…

— David Brooks

I think the twenty-first century happened, basically. That this century started on 9/11. And basically, it's been a century of counter reaction…

— David Brooks

Of course I don't know what's going on in that meeting on in the mind of Donald Trump. But I do know…

— David Brooks

“Your unconscious wants to entangle you in the thick web of relations that are the essence of human flourishing. It longs and…

— David Brooks

Mitt Romney knows a lot. He's a very professional - a consummate professional.

— David Brooks

I want to try to make big films that hopefully connect with people.

— David Brooks

Donald Trump is so egregious in the way he talks about women, the way he allegedly treated women.

— David Brooks

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.

— David Brooks

I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.

— David Brooks

“Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.”

— David Brooks

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

— David Brooks

On the [Andrew] Puzder point, I do agree there has been a double standard.

— David Brooks