David Brooks Quotes - Page 14

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• 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."

  David Brooks

  Thinking, People, Suffering

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• What's interesting about the Trump administration is how bitterly divided they are in their attitudes towards Putin.

  David Brooks

  Attitude, Interesting, Administration

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I can't imagine that being in the Trump Cabinet will be a very important job. I do think this will be a White House-run administration with a teeny-tiny group of people surrounding him, including his family maybe.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There certainly is a pattern of administrations that have good transitions, George W. Bush to Barack Obama, and administrations that have really bad transitions, I would say Dwight Eisenhower to John F. Kennedy. I would say this is beginning to look like a bad transition, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump as they begin to argue even at the presidential level, which is more or less unprecedented.

  David Brooks

  Presidential, Arguing, Dwight

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's part of Donald Trump's psychodynamics to always care about his press coverage intensely. He's more interested in that than anything else.

  David Brooks

  Care, Trump, Coverage

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Basically, global capitalism, basically to support it, or is it to be opposed? Is international order to be supported, or is it to be opposed? Republicans have taken a very clear line. Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace and activism, and we're the party that's going to have a civilized capitalism.

  David Brooks

  Party, Taken, Order

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• You figure out, what is the crucial issue facing the country right now? And for Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.

  David Brooks

  Country, Order, Issues

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Donald Trump's world view is that it's a dangerous, miserable place, people are out to get him, and he needs to strike them first.

  David Brooks

  Views, People, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The idea that Russia felt emboldened and apparently fearless to go into our election and manipulate our own election process, whether successfully or not, is a sign that they are outside the norms of normal society.

  David Brooks

  Russia, Election Process, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What Bannon and Trump have presented us with is an idea of America that's not been the traditional idea, not the Walt Whitman idea, not the George Washington, Abraham Lincoln idea, which is one of welcoming because we're the last, best hope of Earth.

  David Brooks

  Ideas, America, Earth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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 wait for your time in office. [Donald] Trump is not a hang-back kind of guy.

  David Brooks

  Country, Two, Office

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [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.

  David Brooks

  Israel, President, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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?

  David Brooks

  Israel, Two, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The more attention Hillary Clinton gives to the country, the less people seem to like her.

  David Brooks

  Country, People, Giving

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.

  David Brooks

  Self, Self Control, Littles

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A lot of people think Barack Obama should have responded to the Russian hacking of the U.S. elections weeks ago, months ago. So these happened on his watch. There's nothing wrong with him dealing with it.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, People, Election

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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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• I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a lot of defenders. The idea that they're going to completely explode the deficit is just a party killer for the Republican parties.

  David Brooks

  Party, Believe, Republican

  "Week In Politics: Tillerson On North Korea, Michael Flynn". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. April 28, 2017.

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• I've argued that Trump's biggest success in his first 100 days was to keep the Russia story at bay, toss out whatever it takes to push the story back, including those false charges that Obama had his wires tapped.

  David Brooks

  Wire, Whatever It Takes

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I, personally, think Trump improved pretty dramatically and certainly changed pretty dramatically over the last hundred days. He's less of the populist. He's more of the corporatist. He's less incompetent. He's trying to at least turn toward people who can put a decision-making process. And he's trying to adjust to the job. And so whatever one thinks of him, he is certainly a learning creature.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Who could have predicted this, that the presidency is kind of a hard job? Nobody knew that. I also like the fact that Trump is a detail-oriented person. I find his interviews amazing. He's actually kind of remarkably candid.

  David Brooks

  Kind

  "Week In Politics: Tillerson On North Korea, Michael Flynn". Interview with Audie Cornish, kawc.org. April 28, 2017.

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• I generally think debates within a party should not be treated as a scandal. They should be treated as a sign of strength, to be honest.

  David Brooks

  Party, Thinking, Scandal

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, America, Balance

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think actually in any party it's a sign of general health to have different views, and especially on the subject of trade.

  David Brooks

  Party, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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.

  David Brooks

  Roots, President, Normal

  Source: www.pbs.org

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