Quote

The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.

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
Unions
Clearly
Republican
Policy
Betsy
Teacher
Makers
Within
Teachers
May
Union
Like
Range

More quotes by David Brooks

Image
Donald Trump's being authentic to what he ran on and what got elected.
David Brooks
Image
Live life as a series of revelations
David Brooks
Image
I do think Donald Trump is a fundamentally unstabilizing force and that the people who swore to uphold the Constitution are going to have to take some measures at some point.
David Brooks
Image
That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.
David Brooks
Image
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.
David Brooks
Image
Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.
David Brooks
Image
Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.
David Brooks
Image
Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning signs of some deeper social and economic problem.
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
Basically, less educated or high school-educated whites are going to Donald Trump. It doesn't matter what the guy does. And college-educated going to Hillary Clinton.
David Brooks
Image
If we're in some sort of Hobbesian state of nature, where you just want a strong man who has no compassion Donald Trump is going to do a little better. So, we will figure out what game we're playing.
David Brooks
Image
Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.
David Brooks
Image
The more attention Hillary Clinton gives to the country, the less people seem to like her.
David Brooks
Image
[Donald Trump] will be the one on offense. He will be the one serving volleys, and it may be some weird stuff about the Russians, but he will be controlling things a little more than he probably did over the last two weeks.
David Brooks
Image
President-elect [Donald] Trump's ambassador to Israel is further to the right than almost anyone in Israel, further to the right than Bibi Netanyahu on the settlements, and almost opposes the two-state solution, doesn't he?
David Brooks
Image
Israel is a country of six million people. They need the U.S. It used to be bipartisan on Israeli politics. You never messed with that relationship. The fact that [ Benjamin] Netanyahu is willing to do that, I thought would horrify voters more than it turned out it did.
David Brooks
Image
Hillary Clinton is still - she's such a private person.
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
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.
David Brooks
Image
[Mitch Daniels] was not a bad governor. He could be playful, but - or communicator.I'm just saying it will - I think will be - every candidate comes into the White House, assuming if [Hillary Clinton] wins, or if she does win, with strengths and weaknesses. This will be a weakness, because this was such an easy moment to show some heart.
David Brooks