It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.
David BrooksI'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.
David BrooksDonald Trump tried to set up this debate where it was going to be globalists vs. nationalists, and the Republicans were going to be the nationalists. But, if anything, the Democrats looked more patriotic and more nationalist at the end of these two.
David BrooksBill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This is negative pandering; he talks a lot without really ruling anything out so you can draw your own conclusions.....Kerry has been talking for years, and yet such is the thicket of his verbiage that he has achieved almost complete strategic ambiguity.
David Brooks