If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.
David BrooksPolitics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.
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 BrooksBibi Netanyahu, froze the settlements and offered to go toward a two-state solution. The Palestinians didn't take him up on it. Historically, we have had a series of these offers. And the settlements themselves are not the keystone here. It seems to me myopic and bizarre that at the last moment, the Barack Obama administration would surrender the whole balanced array of policies that are obstacles to peace and focus on the one that is most detrimental to Israel.
David Brooks