David Brooks Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year. . . . A year ago, the Obama supporters were the passionate ones. Now the tea party brigades have all the intensity.

  David Brooks

  Party, Past, Class

• Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal.

  David Brooks

  Party, Differences, Orthodoxy

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I generally think debates within a party should not be treated as a scandal. They should be treated as a sign of strength, to be honest.

  David Brooks

  Party, Thinking, Scandal

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent the time on Obamacare, which had real benefits, 20 million insured, but not on inequality, was a major cost to the Democratic Party, costing them their majorities, but also a bit of a cost to the country, because it didn't address the fundamental issues that led to Donald Trump and that led to a lot of unhappiness, just the continued widening inequality.

  David Brooks

  Country, Real, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a lot of defenders. The idea that they're going to completely explode the deficit is just a party killer for the Republican parties.

  David Brooks

  Party, Believe, Republican

  "Week In Politics: Tillerson On North Korea, Michael Flynn". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. April 28, 2017.

• There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have complicated minds, unusual perspectives, the toughness to withstand the party-line barrages and a practical interest in producing results.

  David Brooks

  Team, Party, Player

  "A Most Valuable Democrat". www.nytimes.com. January 20, 2011.

• The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.

  David Brooks

  Party, Class, Culture

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Tim Kaine has been obviously a governor. He's been a senator. He's one of the smartest rising stars in the Democratic Party. He is very plausible as someone who could sit in and be president.

  David Brooks

  Stars, Party, President

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

• The Republicans in Congress, they believe in Ronald Reagan's Republican Party, not Donald Trump Republican Party or Steve Bannon's Republican Party.

  David Brooks

  Party, Believe, Republican

  Source: www.pbs.org

• It's hard to imagine a party that is not corrupted by hatred.

  David Brooks

  Party, Hatred, Imagine

  "Will Mike Pence help change the tone of the RNC?". "News Hour" with Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. July 20, 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

• The party cannot be competitive nationally unless it's competitive in California, Oregon, Washington, New England, Pennsylvania, along the coasts. And the problem for the party is, you can't get there from here. You can't start out where the current Republicans are and win back those places. To me, what you have to do is create a different Republican Party that can win in those places.

  David Brooks

  Party, Winning, Oregon

  "Shields and Brooks on Obama in the Mideast, GOP in Overhaul". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 22, 2013.

• Basically, global capitalism, basically to support it, or is it to be opposed? Is international order to be supported, or is it to be opposed? Republicans have taken a very clear line. Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace and activism, and we're the party that's going to have a civilized capitalism.

  David Brooks

  Party, Taken, Order

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• Parties that are majority parties are incoherent parties.

  David Brooks

  Party, Majority

  "Shields and Brooks on Obama in the Mideast, GOP in Overhaul". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 21, 2013.

• The Republican Party has become an ethnic nationalist party.

  David Brooks

  Party, Republican, Republican Party

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong.

  David Brooks

  Party, Republican, Trump

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• I think actually in any party it's a sign of general health to have different views, and especially on the subject of trade.

  David Brooks

  Party, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.npr.org

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