Quote

... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

David Brooks

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Brooks
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 22
Editor
Journalist
Politician
Pundit
City of Toronto
Rivers
Talk
Aspersion
Floats
Trash
River
Washington

More quotes by David Brooks

Image
As for multimillionaires [in Donald Trump's Administration], a lot of us hope to be a multimillionaire some day. Again, spotty records, but it seems to be not without the range.
David Brooks
Image
It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive Stanley Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.
David Brooks
Image
You figure out, what is the crucial issue facing the country right now? And for Trump, it was that the global economy and the international world order were failing regular people.
David Brooks
Image
The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.
David Brooks
Image
What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
David Brooks
Image
Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a lot of us, but a respectable senator for a long period of time.
David Brooks
Image
The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.
David Brooks
Image
People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.
David Brooks
Image
I would like to see an animating passion. Tim Kaine actually had a good line. What animated you before you got into politics? And she actually does have a story there to tell about children. And so drawing that animating passion will do good.
David Brooks
Image
Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.
David Brooks
Image
The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.
David Brooks
Image
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.
David Brooks
Image
I think as we interpret him and frankly as the world learns to interpret Donald Trump, are these just words that are enigmatic things floating on air or are they actually shifts in policy and will they change moment by moment, day by day without any underlying connection to the actual stuff of governance? I don't know.
David Brooks
Image
America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce, free movement of people. That happens because of U.S. military might.
David Brooks
Image
Live life as a series of revelations
David Brooks
Image
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 .
David Brooks
Image
Everyone is dividing based on demographic categories.
David Brooks
Image
I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan or Jack Kennedy, brought to it a sense of optimism and possibility.
David Brooks
Image
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.
David Brooks
Image
It's part of Donald Trump's psychodynamics to always care about his press coverage intensely. He's more interested in that than anything else.
David Brooks