David Brooks Quotes


When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. ... The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas. - David Brooks



What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way. - David Brooks



We've talked about it but it hasn't gotten that far yet. If we needed to do something further to reduce (appliances), we might. - David Brooks



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 you explain the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year? - David Brooks