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
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.
children pays rational
Obsessing that much about your children is rational and it pays off.
advice anyone approval complaint party reviewed
Nothing in this complaint has been reviewed by anyone in the party for approval or advice.
airplane angry bush days looking sitting three window
Sitting on the airplane and looking out the window was terrible, ... And three days of doing nothing, really, by Bush was terrible. Im angry at the guy.
escaped poor rich
The rich escaped while the poor were abandoned.
bread businesses die fishing hunting known numbers
Fishing and hunting are the area's bread and butter. A lot of businesses live and die with the seasons. We've always been known for deer, but those numbers have been declining. Fishing is more reliable.
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.