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Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.

David Brooks

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David Brooks
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 22
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Russia has a very sophisticated, advanced attack on U.S. businesses and U.S. government and U.S. institutions. And it's not like Donald Trump is going to be walking away from this. He will be spending a lot of time on it, if he's any sort of normal president.
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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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The idea that Russia felt emboldened and apparently fearless to go into our election and manipulate our own election process, whether successfully or not, is a sign that they are outside the norms of normal society.
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I think as we interpret him and frankly as the world learns to interpret Donald Trump, are these just words that are enigmatic things floating on air or are they actually shifts in policy and will they change moment by moment, day by day without any underlying connection to the actual stuff of governance? I don't know.
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People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.
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I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks.
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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 agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of domestic discretionary, which is welfare, education, all the stuff the government does, parks, FBI, and it shouldn't be coming out of Medicaid.
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I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.
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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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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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The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below.
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I'm of course nostalgic for Barack Obama all of a sudden.
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I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.
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If Donald Trump wants to fire somebody for not getting Obamacare repealed, he should fire himself.
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Donald Trump's being authentic to what he ran on and what got elected.
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America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce, free movement of people. That happens because of U.S. military might.
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Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.
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I can't imagine that being in the Trump Cabinet will be a very important job. I do think this will be a White House-run administration with a teeny-tiny group of people surrounding him, including his family maybe.
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