David Brooks may refer to:
Populists love rich people. They just hate professionals.
People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.
I think the voters who voted for Donald Trump certainly are willing to tolerate a lot of ugliness, but maybe, if you're in desperate circumstances, or you think America is deeply in trouble, you're willing to tolerate that without necessarily liking it.
Mitt Romney knows a lot. He's a very professional - a consummate professional.
Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.
Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.
With the case of [Mike] Pence, giving a little aurora of likability to a candidate, a lead candidate who's a little lacking in that department.
The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.
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?
With a normal president like President [Barack] Obama, he says a word, and that's because there has been some thought that he's done and there had been policy papers and there's been aides and there's been advisers and then there is a connection to an actual set of policies. And so, the words like have roots into actual stuff.
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.
The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.
Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.
Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.
The drugs are just growing all around the country, and so, it all feeds into problems that are not just urban, but are just spread throughout the country.
Donald Trump understands sense of belonging. And a lot of people think globalization, any time you make any particularity, you're sort of offending some other group. And a lot of people in this country think they belong to America anymore, and he at least appeals to some sense of belonging. I like the idea that we belong to Western traditions, so I'm glad he appeals to that sort of thing.
The corruption will come back to haunt the Trump administration. But mostly, it'll come back to haunt the American economy, as companies decide they can make money by rent-seeking, by getting money from government rather than earning it the old-fashioned way.
Donald Trump appalls me. I won't be shy about that.
I'm of course nostalgic for Barack Obama all of a sudden.
The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.