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When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.

David Brooks
Focus, Inward, Slipping
"Shields and Brooks on CPAC, Obama’s Outreach to Congress, Pope Francis". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 15, 2013.
When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.