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
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.
country israel people
Israel is a country of six million people. They need the U.S. It used to be bipartisan on Israeli politics. You never messed with that relationship. The fact that [ Benjamin] Netanyahu is willing to do that, I thought would horrify voters more than it turned out it did.
frustration vocabulary world
One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy [but] sentiment is not mushy.
growing-up home action
If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.
distance humility thinking-about-you
Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?
things-in-life careers sometimes
Sometimes, you go - you achieve a few things in life. I have achieved more career success than I ever experienced or that I ever thought. And I just realized, it doesn't make you happy. It's an elemental truth. It's so true.
people giving amount
People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.
president limits firsts
President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.
confused school white
Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High school dropout issues. But because of the flow of events which involve the racial component, we've sometimes confused racial issues with other issues which are trans-racial.
revenge hatred natural
The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction.
writing wife guy
I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony.
writing brain levels
The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.
choices emotion educate
We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.