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There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

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David Brooks
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 22
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Journalist
Politician
Pundit
City of Toronto
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English
Trump

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Trump has picked the more extreme versions of all Republicans so far, the more aggressive. And I think the thing to watch out for is, I could totally paint a scenario where Trump runs an authoritarian regime. I can totally paint a scenario where he has no control over his own government.
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Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.
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The incumbents just have a ton more money because they have rigged the system to help themselves, because they have these networks of small donors. Meanwhile, the amount of people, the incumbents being reelected has just been - that has been going up and up and up.
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What's interesting about the Trump administration is how bitterly divided they are in their attitudes towards Putin.
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I'm not a kicker and a screamer.
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I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.
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The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.
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One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.
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Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.
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I think Donald Trump is going to find it very hard to do the kind of massive change he wants.
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Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.
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The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.
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I am not a Jew for Jesus but I am definitely a Jew for Christmas. Christmas is one of the best things you Christians have given us, along with mac and cheese, Bono, croquet and politeness.
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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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If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.
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Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War II, and they see a potential alliance of populists around the world who would fight Islam and restore a certain semblance of traditional values.
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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 don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.
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Since 2005, a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, have said it was wrong and a mistake to go into Iraq.
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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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