David Brooks
David Brooks
Conservative political columnist for the New York Times. He also wrote for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times and provided political commentary for National Public Radio (NPR) and the PBS NewsHour.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth11 August 1961
CityToronto, Canada
CountryUnited States of America
class views politics
Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.
honesty thinking world
I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.
government gains moral
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.
memories mind remember
The idea that when you correct a fact, you erase that fact from people's memories is the reverse of the truth. When you correct a fact, what you do is you further lodge that fact into people's minds, and they remember the error.
people miracle series
People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.
foundation emotion reason
Emotion is the foundation of reason.
art people culture
Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.
race self people
If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a general sense of the state of the race. I've seen the work on information overload, which makes people depressed, stressed and freezes their brains. I know that checking the polls constantly is a recipe for self-deception and anxiety.
team party player
There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have complicated minds, unusual perspectives, the toughness to withstand the party-line barrages and a practical interest in producing results.
people needs individual-power
Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.
war achieve legitimacy
The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.
virtue
There is a virtue in shamelessness.
streets three
They're from a friend's house. Three streets away.
allowing bit deals sign standing tolerance
There's a little bit more sign of government's standing back and allowing cross-border deals to happen, more tolerance on pan-European deals.