The things that make them similar - their machismo, their expansionary braggadocio - is going to turn them I think into bitter and dangerous enemies. We will look back on this moment where we thought Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump were sort of close as a moment of bitter irony, when they get into a schoolyard display against each other, amping up each other's worst tendencies and putting the two countries in some sort of scary position.
David BrooksAlmost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
David BrooksEvery 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 BrooksWhen 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.
David BrooksI do think creating an open free-trade economy but with strong social support is the way to go.
David BrooksWe have an international system. We all profit from it. Trade profits from it. Peace. We can travel around the world because of it. And part of that system is certain ideas, the certain ideas you can't invade other countries for no reason. You can't commit genocide. You can't - rogue regimes can't have nuclear weapons, and you can't gas your own people.
David Brooks