David Brooks Quotes

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump.

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence.

I have a bigger voice than Donald Trump, you know what I'm saying? Than literally anybody that works in politics.

World leaders and major political figures have often had delusions of grandeur.

Steve Bannon puts himself above everything.

Donald Trump always puts himself first.

Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.

I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.

You have to have a sense of ego and of purpose to go into politics.

I have only to raise a finger and the whole face of Europe is changed.

I left the White House but I’m still here.

When Nelson Mandela came into the room, he changed the room.

Honestly, the egos and the quest and thirst for power is very prevalent in Washington.

Everything I did in politics affected somebody.

The presidency of the United States is an incredible thing. You have an ability to effectuate change at the highest level.

I'm not the kind of person who goes into the dressing room and says: 'I'm the Guv here.' But maybe I give off the aura that I'm the kind of person who can be a big player.

You don't change Donald Trump. You don't 'manage' him.

You know, when you get the White House operator and they say, 'Just a moment for the president of the United States,' that's a pretty heady moment.

Long after Donald Trump is no longer President Trump, I know there will still be a relationship there.