If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.
David BrooksI'm not sure [Donald] Trump has had that distinction between private and public life in his head. And so, I think there's likely to be an erosion of just that standard, that different standard, consciousness, and I think it's likely we'll see what we haven't seen in the last eight years and even the last 12 or 16 of private enrichment in office and scandals where people have to resign and things like that, because just once the standards go, behavior tends to go.
David BrooksItโs worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall Street and be a hero
David Brooks