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David Brooks
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 22
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City of Toronto
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The Republican Party has become an ethnic nationalist party.
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If Donald Trump wants to fire somebody for not getting Obamacare repealed, he should fire himself.
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I think there are two basic approaches you can use for campaign finance. One is complete openness, everybody knows absolutely everything, but no limits. But you let people decide.The other is just have a national public system.
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The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.
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There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.
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We're no longer living in Tammany Hall America.
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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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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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When you talk about the problem of illegal immigration, people are angry and polarized. When you talk about the answers, the debate gets a little different.
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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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The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.
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My colleague Ross Douthat wrote that any time you give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, he always lets you down.
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The gun becomes this psychological totem, this thing of who I am. And it's almost as if using the gun is going to be the thing that's going to be my expression of how I make a difference in the world.
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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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Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.
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There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health.
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I think Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana was a case of that, who was an outstanding administrator.
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Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope Republican ones to rage.
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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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I generally think debates within a party should not be treated as a scandal. They should be treated as a sign of strength, to be honest.
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