“I was a liberal Democrat when I was young. I used to wear a green Army jacket with political buttons on it — for Hubert Humphrey, Birch Bayh, John F. Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. I even wore that jacket in my high school yearbook photo. It’s a magic green jacket. I can put it on today and, suddenly, my mind shifts back to the left.”

– “Conservative” columnist David Brooks, New York Times, July 27