David Brooks Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• I think Trump's attention span is super low. I don't think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy.

  David Brooks

  Running, Thinking, Attention

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Trump has picked the more extreme versions of all Republicans so far, the more aggressive. And I think the thing to watch out for is, I could totally paint a scenario where Trump runs an authoritarian regime. I can totally paint a scenario where he has no control over his own government.

  David Brooks

  Running, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

• People ask, quite legitimately, why [Betsy] DeVos and why not a lot of the others? But it's because it has to do with the special interest groups that run a lot of Washington.

  David Brooks

  Running, People, Special

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• If you're running a successful administration, then you're loyal to people who are basically good who make a mistake. And that seems to be essential for any organization. And it should be essential if this were a normal administration, rather than a fiefdom, where everybody simply tries to give Donald Trump a good headline every day.

  David Brooks

  Running, Mistake, Successful

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too.

  David Brooks

  Running, Agreement, Long

  "Shields and Brooks on the Senate's trade battle, train safety funding". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 15, 2015.

• When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got to stay interesting.

  David Brooks

  Running, People, Interesting

  "Week In Politics: Hillary Clinton's Upcoming Announcement, Rand Paul's Remarks". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. April 10, 2015.

• When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going to be around the living room as a pleasant experience, they're not going to vote for you even if they agree with you.

  David Brooks

  Running, Thinking, Years

  "Week In Politics: Hillary Clinton's Upcoming Announcement, Rand Paul's Remarks". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. April 10, 2015.

• If I were Donald Trump, I would definitely not pick Mitt Romney because it's very easy for Mitt Romney to have have a separate foreign policy operatus in the State Department that would run a dissenting foreign policy from the White House foreign policy. There, I think the populist America-first foreign policy of Donald Trump does run against a potential rival.

  David Brooks

  Running, Thinking, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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