David Brooks Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

  David Brooks

  White, House, Democracy

• [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.

  David Brooks

  Heart, Winning, Thinking

  "Shields and Brooks on which convention was more successful, Clinton's failure to emotionally connect". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 29, 2016.

• 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.

  David Brooks

  White, House, Covered

  "Shields and Brooks on Hagel’s Rough Hearing, Movement on Immigration". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. February 1, 2013.

• 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

  Circles, White, House

  "Shields and Brooks on Hagel’s Rough Hearing, Movement on Immigration". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. February 1, 2013.

• If I were Donald Trump, I would definitely not pick Mitt Romney because it's very easy for Mitt Romney to have have a separate foreign policy operatus in the State Department that would run a dissenting foreign policy from the White House foreign policy. There, I think the populist America-first foreign policy of Donald Trump does run against a potential rival.

  David Brooks

  Running, Thinking, White

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent the time on Obamacare, which had real benefits, 20 million insured, but not on inequality, was a major cost to the Democratic Party, costing them their majorities, but also a bit of a cost to the country, because it didn't address the fundamental issues that led to Donald Trump and that led to a lot of unhappiness, just the continued widening inequality.

  David Brooks

  Country, Real, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The most interesting thing is that the White House staff and the people under Donald Trump, at least some portion of them, some large portion of them, seem to have turned against Donald Trump.

  David Brooks

  People, Interesting, House

  Source: www.pbs.org

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