If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.
David BrooksPutin 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 BrooksObamacare is woven into the fabric of health care. It's very hard to just rip it out, as Donald Trump sort of acknowledged with The Wall Street Journal.
David BrooksThe politics is broken up and down. And Trump may emerge from a reality TV world that is much more powerful than we think. And there is the prospect that this is where we are, which is an horrific thought.
David BrooksMost people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.
David BrooksWith a normal president like President [Barack] Obama, he says a word, and that's because there has been some thought that he's done and there had been policy papers and there's been aides and there's been advisers and then there is a connection to an actual set of policies. And so, the words like have roots into actual stuff.
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