David Brooks Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a general sense of the state of the race. I've seen the work on information overload, which makes people depressed, stressed and freezes their brains. I know that checking the polls constantly is a recipe for self-deception and anxiety.

  David Brooks

  Race, Self, People

• 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

• The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

  David Brooks

  White, House, Democracy

• I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.

  David Brooks

  Honesty, Thinking, World

• Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.

  David Brooks

  Class, Views, Voters

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