People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“they both affected discerning connoisseurship over extremely prosaic things such as hamburgers and iced tea.” — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Nonetheless, so whether it's unconstitutional or not [for judges to overruling presidents], I leave to others. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way. — David Brooks Emotion Copy Share Image
“Flourishing depends on unconscious skills that serve as a pre-requisite for conscious accomplishments.” — David Brooks Equality Copy Share Image
The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I do think creating an open free-trade economy but with strong social support is the way to go. — David Brooks Creating Copy Share Image
If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect. — David Brooks Country Copy Share Image
Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Our system is not only based on rules, but a series of self-restraints that we won't be as barbaric as we could… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“If you live in a society like ours, in which people seldom object if they hear someone taking the Lord's name in… — David Brooks Values Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to… — David Brooks About yourself Copy Share Image
“If the article mentions some celebrity-perhaps a recently dead politician-the author will want to mention some pointless detail from her last meeting… — David Brooks Books Copy Share Image
I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they… — David Brooks Government Copy Share Image
Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascinating figure.We say Nixonian about a lot of people. He really is Nixonian. He's brilliant. He's very isolated… — David Brooks Brilliant Copy Share Image
The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Stairway to Wisdom”) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really… — David Brooks Behavior Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is sort of an Orwellian figure, an authoritarian figure who is twisting words in an Orwellian manner, "1984," to exercise… — David Brooks Ego Copy Share Image
I'm not sure [Donald] Trump has had that distinction between private and public life in his head. And so, I think there's… — David Brooks Behavior Copy Share Image
I think the Barack Obama position and the majority position of American Jews and a lot of Americans is a two-state solution… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The party cannot be competitive nationally unless it's competitive in California, Oregon, Washington, New England, Pennsylvania, along the coasts. And the problem… — David Brooks California Copy Share Image
How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
There certainly is a pattern of administrations that have good transitions, George W. Bush to Barack Obama, and administrations that have really… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
With the case of [Mike] Pence, giving a little aurora of likability to a candidate, a lead candidate who's a little lacking… — David Brooks Aurora Copy Share Image
I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable. — David Brooks Behavior Copy Share Image
We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so… — David Brooks Language Copy Share Image
When you talk about the problem of illegal immigration, people are angry and polarized. When you talk about the answers, the debate… — David Brooks Angry Copy Share Image
Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she… — David Brooks Care Copy Share Image
“It is an emotional and an enchanted place. If the study of the conscious mind highlights the importance of reason and analysis,… — David Brooks Conscious mind Copy Share Image
President-elect [Donald] Trump's ambassador to Israel is further to the right than almost anyone in Israel, further to the right than Bibi… — David Brooks Ambassadors Copy Share Image
The reason the Betsy DeVos case was the centerpiece case for the Democrats wasn't about her weakness as a knowledgeable person on… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Life is much bigger than we think, cause and effect intertwined in a vast moral structure that keeps pushing us to do… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The question is whether Donald Trump recognizes that Vladimir Putin is a bad guy. And I guess there's no indication that he… — David Brooks Bad guy 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 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
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 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 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
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