David Brooks Quotes

My main concern is with the world order

Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based world order built on American leadership and the primacy of our political and economic values.

Putin is very - not the smartest guy in the world.

By heralding President Xi Jinping's accession to permanent leadership, soliciting Vladimir Putin's reentry into the Group of Seven, and declaring that Kim Jong Un is 'beloved by his people,' Trump legitimizes the very behavior that U.S. presidents opposed for decades.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

Vladimir Putin is creating an axis of authoritarian regimes that he will lead.

He [Vladimir Putin] will not be able to push Donald Trump around the world. Believe me.

Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.

Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.

When the big powers are in agreement, the U. N. performs. When they aren't, the U. N. is paralyzed.

Both Russia and the United States are struggling to define their proper roles in the world.

The world order and American actions in the world have deep wiring.

Europeans must shed their illusions about what they can accomplish in the world on their own. Loose talk about resurrecting a multi-polar world is just that - loose talk.

Take a moment to imagine a world led by China or Russia. So we must lead.

We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms.

There's a gaping difference between the United States of America and Putin's Russia.

The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.

I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.

The EU should help the emergence of "organized multipolarity" in the currently non-polar world.

Vladimir Putin likes Donald Trump because he supports this view of the world, that the big guys can carve it up, sit and talk about the world, carve up the countries, shape borders. For Putin, treaties, alliances, Nato, the EU are stumbling blocks.

In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is.

I think I'd have a good relationship with Putin. Who knows? He's been a leader far more than Barack Obama has been a leader.

A unipolar world - one with only one power - makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, there is nostalgia for a multipolar world.

The world has always been a dangerous place. Now it is dangerous in a different way, because the world order that we've known since the end of the Cold War has been radically transformed. All of the institutions that preserved peace and promoted global trade will be weaker - NATO, the EU, NAFTA - and US relationships with other countries will change, too.

We had the clip of [Donald] Trump saying: I'm not president of the globe. I'm president of the United States.[Ronald] Reagan would have never said that. [Dwight] Eisenhower would have never said that, because he would have said, yes, I'm president of the United States, but it's in our interests to be securing a world order.