David Brooks Quotes About Clinton

Quotes about: Clinton

• Bill 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

  Talking, Years, Interesting

• I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I'm pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding that train pretty hard.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Numbers, Issues

  "Shields and Brooks on the Hillary Clinton veepstakes, the latest Trump-Cruz dustup". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. July 22, 2016.

• I do think Hillary Clinton should have pivoted and say, I am change, I am change, because people do want some change.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Should Have, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I really think of [Donald] Trump erratic. I think that was the big message that came out. The positive agenda for Hillary [Clinton] was a little less vibrant.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Agendas, Erratic

  "Shields and Brooks on which convention was more successful, Clinton's failure to emotionally connect". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. July 29, 2016.

• For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the Sanders-Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree, they're sentenced to that debate. Clinton is much more embracing of the global economy and the international world order. Sanders and Warren are much less so. And they have got to figure out which side the party is on, if they're going to have a clear message. I think this is probably one you probably can't straddle.

  David Brooks

  Party, Thinking, Order

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• Of those two [Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump], I do think that the - right now, at least in my mind, the Democratic theme is eclipsing the Republican one.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Two, Mind

  "Shields and Brooks on which convention was more successful, Clinton's failure to emotionally connect". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. July 29, 2016.

• The more attention Hillary Clinton gives to the country, the less people seem to like her.

  David Brooks

  Country, People, Giving

  Source: www.npr.org

• There will just always be a distance between you and the people around you. Now, [Hillary Clinton] can clearly emotionally connect with her intimates within the zone of trust. It's just the wall outside the zone of trust is so impermeable.

  David Brooks

  Wall, Distance, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We know the 65-point policy points, to the extent that they exist, but is Hillary Clinton willing to be vulnerable, is she willing to be funny, is she willing to be both authoritative, but also real? And so less what she says than the emotional tone she sets. It takes a lot of confidence to be a vulnerable speaker on this stage. And sometimes she hasn't always projected the confidence it takes to be in some ways weak. But that's what I think people were looking for, that moment of human connection.

  David Brooks

  Real, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Hillary Clinton is still - she's such a private person.

  David Brooks

  Clinton, Persons, Stills

  "Shields and Brooks on which convention was more successful, Clinton's failure to emotionally connect". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 29, 2016.

• I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Clinton, Blair

  "Brooks and Marcus on Cameron's victory, Senate vote to review Iran deal". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 8, 2015.

• [Mitch Daniels] was not a bad governor. He could be playful, but - or communicator.I'm just saying it will - I think will be - every candidate comes into the White House, assuming if [Hillary Clinton] wins, or if she does win, with strengths and weaknesses. This will be a weakness, because this was such an easy moment to show some heart.

  David Brooks

  Heart, Winning, Thinking

  "Shields and Brooks on which convention was more successful, Clinton's failure to emotionally connect". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 29, 2016.

• I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan or Jack Kennedy, brought to it a sense of optimism and possibility.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Optimism, Leader

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Basically, less educated or high school-educated whites are going to Donald Trump. It doesn't matter what the guy does. And college-educated going to Hillary Clinton.

  David Brooks

  School, College, Guy

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they are three extremely nice people.

  David Brooks

  Nice, People, Three

  "Shields and Brooks on the Hillary Clinton veepstakes, the latest Trump-Cruz dustup". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. July 22, 2016.

• Hillary Clinton continues to say Donald Trump's unacceptable, he doesn't have the character to be president. He is saying - continues saying she needs to be in prison.

  David Brooks

  Character, President, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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