We live in a culture of a big me. We're encouraged - we raise our kids to think how great they are,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I certainly hear a lot of people say that Donald Trump not only incited some bad things. He also exposed some things.… — David Brooks America Copy Share Image
“There is something heroic about a person in struggle with herself, strained on the rack of conscience, suffering torments, yet staying alive… — David Brooks Growing stronger Copy Share Image
Who could have predicted this, that the presidency is kind of a hard job? Nobody knew that. I also like the fact… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle. — David Brooks Affair Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's ego is like a comet the size of Jupiter just traveling through the solar system, and we all have to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Research by Donald A. Redelmeier and Sheldon M. Singh has found that, on average, Oscar winners live nearly four years longer than… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The incumbents just have a ton more money because they have rigged the system to help themselves, because they have these networks… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Everybody is comparing the oil spill to Hurricane Katrina, but the real parallel could be the Iranian hostage crisis. In the late… — David Brooks Climate Copy Share Image
You have a country that is 20 percent liberal, 40 percent conservative. You have a country where maybe 22 percent have faith… — David Brooks Conservative Copy Share Image
“Instead, parents just have to be good enough. They have to provide their kids with stable and predictable rhythms. They need to… — David Brooks Child Copy Share Image
It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive [Stanley] Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
We have an international system. We all profit from it. Trade profits from it. Peace. We can travel around the world because… — David Brooks Around the world Copy Share Image
“[The public intellectual] will also describe how she can work a pop culture reference into her essay, comparing the Supreme Court to… — David Brooks Pop culture Copy Share Image
Putin has been - and with a lot of the groups, the conservative groups, the more extreme conservative groups that underlie Trump,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Companionate love is the calmer state that comes after, filled more with quiet satisfaction, friendship, and a gentler happiness” — David Brooks Friendship Copy Share Image
One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The… — David Brooks Frustration Copy Share Image
The Republicans in Congress, they believe in Ronald Reagan's Republican Party, not Donald Trump Republican Party or Steve Bannon's Republican Party. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the… — David Brooks Counseling Copy Share Image
In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a… — David Brooks Conservative Copy Share Image
Obamacare is woven into the fabric of health care. It's very hard to just rip it out, as Donald Trump sort of… — David Brooks Care Copy Share Image
If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things… — David Brooks Buying Copy Share Image
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If you're cutting deals with one company or another, eventually, there's going to be a quid pro quo. There's going to be… — David Brooks Bribe Copy Share Image
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of… — David Brooks Atheism Copy Share Image
Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The most interesting thing is that the White House staff and the people under Donald Trump, at least some portion of them,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left… — David Brooks Differences Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is sitting on the control deck of the starship Enterprise, and he can push a lot of pretty buttons, but… — David Brooks Business Copy Share Image
For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Of those two [Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump], I do think that the - right now, at least in my mind, the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Just, as I have traveled around from school to school, whether it's project-based learning or an outward bound curriculum, it's very hard… — David Brooks Bounds Copy Share Image
The North Korean regime is extremely fiery, extremely insecure, sometimes hysterical. And when you're around somebody who's screaming and unstable, the last… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
For us going forward, it's to not reverse the dynamism of American society and the diversity. It's to pay attention to the… — David Brooks American society Copy Share Image
Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have… — David Brooks American culture Copy Share Image
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