David Brooks Quotes
-
Israel is a country of six million people. They need the U.S. It used to be bipartisan on Israeli politics. You never messed with that relationship. The fact that [ Benjamin] Netanyahu is willing to do that, I thought would horrify voters more than it turned out it did.
→ -
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 to globalization and the meritocracy. And a good century for 72 nations have gotten more authoritarian. We've had Brexit. We have Le Pen rising in France. We've just got a lot of these types all around the world. And the people who are suffering from globalization and the meritocracy are saying, "No more. You know, we get a voice too."
→ -
I wouldn't say philosophy and theology are dead. Brain science doesn't invent new philosophies but it helps remind us which of our existing philosophies are more true.
→ -
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 able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.
→ -
I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?
→ -
If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong.
→ -
Obamacare is woven into the fabric of health care. It's very hard to just rip it out, as Donald Trump sort of acknowledged with The Wall Street Journal.
→ -
People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.
→ -
Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.
→ -
We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.
→ -
Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.
→ -
I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.
→ -
Basically, less educated or high school-educated whites are going to Donald Trump. It doesn't matter what the guy does. And college-educated going to Hillary Clinton.
→ -
[Mitch Daniels] was not a bad governor. He could be playful, but - or communicator.I'm just saying it will - I think will be - every candidate comes into the White House, assuming if [Hillary Clinton] wins, or if she does win, with strengths and weaknesses. This will be a weakness, because this was such an easy moment to show some heart.
→ -
Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.
→ -
[Donald Trump] has shifted - President [Barack] Obama has shifted American policy in a much more critical way in Israel with the settlements than the previous presidents.
→ -
Since 2005, a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, have said it was wrong and a mistake to go into Iraq.
→ -
Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.
→ -
I really think of [Donald] Trump erratic. I think that was the big message that came out. The positive agenda for Hillary [Clinton] was a little less vibrant.
→ -
I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.
→ -
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.
→ -
Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning signs of some deeper social and economic problem.
→ -
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.
→ -
President-elect [Donald] Trump's ambassador to Israel is further to the right than almost anyone in Israel, further to the right than Bibi Netanyahu on the settlements, and almost opposes the two-state solution, doesn't he?
→ -
This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making , a romantic interlude in the midst of normal life. Instead, decisions about whom to love are more intense versions of the sorts of decisions we make throughout the course of our existence, from what kind of gelato to order to what career to pursue. Living is an inherently emotional business.
→ -
Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This is negative pandering; he talks a lot without really ruling anything out so you can draw your own conclusions.....Kerry has been talking for years, and yet such is the thicket of his verbiage that he has achieved almost complete strategic ambiguity.
→ -
Nonetheless, so whether it's unconstitutional or not [for judges to overruling presidents], I leave to others.
→ -
I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"
→ -
Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure
→ -
I expect [Donald] Trump to do what he's done very successfully, which is, whether you like him or not, he will be the dominant player .
→
Related Authors
-
William Kristol Commentator -
Roger Cohen Journalist -
Frank Rich Essayist -
Frank Bruni Journalist -
Thomas Friedman Journalist -
Charles Krauthammer Columnist -
Ruth Marcus Journalist -
Bret Stephens Journalist -
Jonah Goldberg Author -
Maureen Dowd Columnist -
Gail Collins Journalist -
Gwen Ifill Journalist -
Ross Douthat Author -
David Frum Speechwriter -
Judy Woodruff News anchor -
Paul Krugman Economist -
E. J. Dionne Journalist -
Max Boot Author -
George Will Columnist -
Mark Shields Columnist