David Brooks

I think Donald Trump is going to find it very hard to do the kind of massive change he wants.

— David Brooks

“David Buss's survey suggest that kindness is the most important quality desired in a sexual partner by both men and women.”

— David Brooks

I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.

— David Brooks

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

— David Brooks

Every second we spend on talking about Sarah Palin is a second in our lives that we can never get back.

— David Brooks

I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

— David Brooks

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

— David Brooks

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

— David Brooks

I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing…

— David Brooks

If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.

— David Brooks

Donald Trump's got to do some big changes, because what he was voted on. But when you think about how to do…

— David Brooks

“Breakfast Club, and shared the same misimpression that it was a sign of sophistication to talk about how much you loved Eames…

— David Brooks

We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do…

— David Brooks

“Emotion assigns value to things, and reason can only make choices on the basis of those valuations. The human mind can be…

— David Brooks

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude…

— David Brooks

I sort of feel we have to owe some respect to the process and owe some respect to the electorate and the…

— David Brooks

Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want…

— David Brooks

I think as we interpret him and frankly as the world learns to interpret Donald Trump, are these just words that are…

— David Brooks

“Poorer children grow up with more stress and more disruption, and these disadvantages produce effects on the brain. Researchers often use dull…

— David Brooks

It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis…

— David Brooks

“The students would burn out if forced to spend their entire day amidst the social intensity of the cafeteria and hallway. Fortunately…

— David Brooks

“Modern society has created a giant apparatus for the cultivation of the hard skills, while failing to develop the moral and emotional…

— David Brooks

Big Brother is not the only danger facing the country. Another is the rising tide of distrust, the corrosive spread of cynicism,…

— David Brooks

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so…

— David Brooks

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

— David Brooks

I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.

— David Brooks

As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place…

— David Brooks

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

— David Brooks

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

— David Brooks

The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

— David Brooks

People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.

— David Brooks

Every time Kellyanne Conway goes on TV, there's another fight with whoever's interviewing her that particular day.

— David Brooks

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

— David Brooks

What's interesting about the Trump administration is how bitterly divided they are in their attitudes towards Putin.

— David Brooks

“You are the spiritual entity that emerges out of the material networks in your head.”

— David Brooks

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

— David Brooks

Maybe you're willing to tolerate a lot of bigotry from Donald Trump if you say, just change things, just change things.

— David Brooks

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

Clearly, politics is a team sport. Trump is not so much of a team player.

— David Brooks

I think Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana was a case of that, who was an outstanding administrator.

— David Brooks