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David Brooks
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 22
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City of Toronto
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I do think creating an open free-trade economy but with strong social support is the way to go.
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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.
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I'm beginning to think [Ted] Cruz had a good convention, that if [Donald] Trump goes down, Cruz is pretty well positioned to be the Republican major figure in four, six or even within two years.
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Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.
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People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.
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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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We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.
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The idea that a big country is going to go out and send troops into some country to take their resources, and then the rest of the world is going to somehow trust us is just a ridiculous notion.
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I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.
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We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can be explained the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?
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I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.
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The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.
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The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.
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We are all fundamentally equal souls, and if you make a zillion dollars, you're not any better than anybody else spiritually. You're still an equal soul.
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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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I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.
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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 .
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I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.
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I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's a defensible position, given the current circumstances.
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Freedom without structure is its own slavery.
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