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
streets three
They're from a friend's house. Three streets away.
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.
giving people focus
What you hear in focus groups and conversations, people will give you 20 minutes of rage about how the borders are out of control. But then you start saying, practically, what are we going to do about it? What are we going to do about the 11 million here? What are we going to do to get some workers we need for the farms? Then people start having a normal conversation.
donation empty
If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.
lively reputation
It has a reputation as a very lively place with good, lively students.
country people president
It's important for presidents to emotionally connect, with the country in times of crisis, but also with people in Washington. If you can't emotionally connect - and [Barack] Obama is not the greatest, but he can at least do it - then people won't be with you when the times are hard.
party
Parties that are majority parties are incoherent parties.
player done
I expect [Donald] Trump to do what he's done very successfully, which is, whether you like him or not, he will be the dominant player .
secretary
It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.
party hatred imagine
It's hard to imagine a party that is not corrupted by hatred.
wall distance people
There will just always be a distance between you and the people around you. Now, [Hillary Clinton] can clearly emotionally connect with her intimates within the zone of trust. It's just the wall outside the zone of trust is so impermeable.
people loyal
You have got to be loyal to people beneath you.
country pain people
I certainly hear a lot of people say that Donald Trump not only incited some bad things. He also exposed some things. He exposed pain in America that a lot of us didn't have the full extent of, some of the divisions and chasms in the country.
people
Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots of people.