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When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas. (David Brooks)
It's hard for parents just to measure schools. View quote
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Clearly, politics is a team sport. Trump is not so much of a team player. View quote
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When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility. View quote
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The more attention Hillary Clinton gives to the country, the less people seem to like her. View quote
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The Republican Party has become an ethnic nationalist party. View quote
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When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got to stay interesting. View quote
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I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do. View quote
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The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level. View quote
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We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions. View quote
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It's impossible for one person to think of everything. (David Brooks)
One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will. View quote
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That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy. View quote
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The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction. View quote
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Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle. View quote
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We actually have to have a government. We have to have people confirmed and put into office. View quote
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People who don't like Trump really don't like Trump. And I guess I'm among them. View quote
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Everyone is dividing based on demographic categories. View quote
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The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same. View quote
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Fundamentalism is still on the march. View quote
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I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues. (David Brooks)
Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right. View quote
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Donald Trump betrays. It can start with Trump University, where Trump betrayed schoolteachers and others who dreamed of building a better life for themselves. View quote
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About once a month I run across a person who radiates an inner light. These people can be in any walk of life. They seem deeply good. They listen well. They make you feel funny and valued. You often catch them looking after other people and as they do so their laugh is musical and their manner is infused with gratitude. They are not thinking about what wonderful work they are doing. They are not thinking about themselves at all. View quote
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The journalists at Charlie Hebdo are now rightly being celebrated as martyrs on behalf of freedom of expression, but let's face it. If they had tried to publish their satirical newspaper on any American university campus over the last two decades it wouldn't have lasted 30 seconds. Student and faculty groups would have accused them of hate speech. The administration would have cut financing and shut them down. View quote
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Occupation: American Journalist
Born: August 11, 1961
Quotes count: 86
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