The madman theory is that you can be a successful deterrer if you - if they think you could be crazy. And… — David Brooks Being crazy Copy Share Image
Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“The first thing you see, covering yards and yards of one wall, is an object that looks like a nickel-plated nuclear reactor,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The gun becomes this psychological totem, this thing of who I am. And it's almost as if using the gun is going… — David Brooks Differences Copy Share Image
I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I'm pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding… — David Brooks Anxiety Copy Share Image
One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the… — David Brooks Capitalism Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a… — David Brooks Administration Copy Share Image
I think there are two basic approaches you can use for campaign finance. One is complete openness, everybody knows absolutely everything, but… — David Brooks Approach Copy Share Image
Trump has picked the more extreme versions of all Republicans so far, the more aggressive. And I think the thing to watch… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
We still are America though. We're still a country that is a country of social mobility. We're still a country of immigrants.… — David Brooks America Copy Share Image
I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured… — David Brooks Atrocities Copy Share Image
“The only thing that remained distinct about Grace, through it all, was his equipoise. He never lost his cool. He never snapped… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I, personally, think Trump improved pretty dramatically and certainly changed pretty dramatically over the last hundred days. He's less of the populist.… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
What's sort of remarkable is that, especially in the Israel and the Russia cases, you have got a U.S. citizen, Donald Trump,… — David Brooks Country Copy Share Image
“This way, suffering becomes a fearful gift, very different from that other gift, happiness, conventionally defined. The latter brings pleasure, but the… — David Brooks Character Copy Share Image
The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce,… — David Brooks America Copy Share Image
People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least… — David Brooks Cleanliness Copy Share Image
“a statement by Bertrand Russell ... embodies the tone of heroic denunciation that you can muster only if you have drunk deeply… — David Brooks Denunciation Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is this whirling dervish of chaos. He picked a fight with Mexico. Germany is not far behind. He will pick… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The drugs are just growing all around the country, and so, it all feeds into problems that are not just urban, but… — David Brooks Country Copy Share Image
Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety. — David Brooks Commanders Copy Share Image
If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“You can't really know God if you ignore his laws, especially the ones that regulate the most intimate spheres of life. You… — David Brooks Life Copy Share Image
Populists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to… — David Brooks Amendment Copy Share Image
When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to… — David Brooks Ego Copy Share Image
Certainly, the country can't have two presidents at once, so the tradition has been to hang back if you're the president-elect and… — David Brooks Country Copy Share Image
A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I have seen [Betsy DeVos] present a few times. I don't really know her. But I have seen her present on education… — David Brooks Education Copy Share Image
I generally think debates within a party should not be treated as a scandal. They should be treated as a sign of… — David Brooks Being honest Copy Share Image
Barack Obama won such a big electoral mandate because a lot of people thought he was - transcended partisan and ideological barriers… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
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