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David Brooks
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 22
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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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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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I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?
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Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president.
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The idea that when you correct a fact, you erase that fact from people's memories is the reverse of the truth. When you correct a fact, what you do is you further lodge that fact into people's minds, and they remember the error.
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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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Maybe you're willing to tolerate a lot of bigotry from Donald Trump if you say, just change things, just change things.
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I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of normalcy that he shouldn't be confirmed.
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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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