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
David Brooks quotes about
character people connections
The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.
narcissistic cameras blowhards
I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.
kids thinking media
We live in a culture of a big me. We're encouraged - we raise our kids to think how great they are, where we have to market ourselves to get through life. We're in social media, where we broadcast highlight - highlight reels of our own lives on Facebook.
sleep brain levels
If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.
views dating people
I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.
attention sexist brackets
I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.
cutting government ideas
I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of domestic discretionary, which is welfare, education, all the stuff the government does, parks, FBI, and it shouldn't be coming out of Medicaid.
block cutting thinking
I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.
thinking israel states
I don't think the Palestinians are in this position they're in, divided with Hamas and the P.A., unwilling to allow - or recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
march stills fundamentalism
Fundamentalism is still on the march.
thinking isis should
I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's a defensible position, given the current circumstances.
people brilliant figures
Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascinating figure.We say Nixonian about a lot of people. He really is Nixonian. He's brilliant. He's very isolated and insular.
country marine soldier
If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.
thinking law people
I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.