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
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.
pain
Pain now is better than pain deferred.
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.
buyers china countries developing excess foreign increase india invested uk witnessed
In 2005 we witnessed in excess of a fivefold increase in the amounts invested by foreign buyers from developing countries such as China and India in the UK market.
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We ought to give people who don't want to go back to New Orleans the means to disperse into middle-class areas nationwide.
escaped poor rich
The rich escaped while the poor were abandoned.