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I'm not a kicker and a screamer.

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David Brooks
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 22
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City of Toronto
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Donald Trump's world view is that it's a dangerous, miserable place, people are out to get him, and he needs to strike them first.
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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.
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The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.
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I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.
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People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.
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[Mitch Daniels] was not a bad governor. He could be playful, but - or communicator.I'm just saying it will - I think will be - every candidate comes into the White House, assuming if [Hillary Clinton] wins, or if she does win, with strengths and weaknesses. This will be a weakness, because this was such an easy moment to show some heart.
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People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.
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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.
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Our system is not only based on rules, but a series of self-restraints that we won't be as barbaric as we could be in competing for power because we know if we're all barbaric as we could be, the whole country and the whole society falls apart.
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Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.
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It's impossible for one person to think of everything.
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A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.
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Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.
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The most interesting thing is that the White House staff and the people under Donald Trump, at least some portion of them, some large portion of them, seem to have turned against Donald Trump.
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It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.
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The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.
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How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once an arrow soaring skyward and an oak planted firmly in the ground? The meritocratic culture hones strivers on every aspect of their lives save one - how to cultivate character.
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The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.
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Donald Trump tried to set up this debate where it was going to be globalists vs. nationalists, and the Republicans were going to be the nationalists. But, if anything, the Democrats looked more patriotic and more nationalist at the end of these two.
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The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.
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