Bret Stephens Quotes

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Bret Stephens

Profession : Journalist

Birth : November 21, 1973

Liberals always cry wolf.

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We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.

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When it comes to trade, when it comes to standing up to countries like North Korea, when it comes to standing up to guys like Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump is not a conservative.

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In the scale of American blunders - from the Dred Scott decision to the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s to the tragedy of Vietnam - is the Trump presidency really unique?

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When those of us in the words-making world use the term 'overregulation,' we are mostly putting a name to a concept we rarely experience consciously.

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The Arab world's problems are a problem of the Arab mind, and the name for that problem is anti-Semitism.

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I am not sorry the CIA went to the edge of the law in the aftermath of 9/11 to prevent further mass-casualty attacks on the U.S.

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I will never vote for Donald Trump.

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Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.

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'Democratic socialism' is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And 'social democracy' - a term that better fits the belief of more ordinary liberals who want, say, Medicare for all - is a politically dying force. Democrats who aren't yet sick of all their losing should feel free to embrace them both.

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I think Black Lives Matter has some really thuggish elements in it. Look - at the risk of being incredibly politically incorrect, but I guess that's my job - I think that all lives matter. Not least black lives.

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Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.

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Socialism may have failed as an economic theory, but global warming alarmism, with its dire warnings about the consequences of industry and consumerism, is equally a rebuke to capitalism.

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Donald Trump's more sophisticated defenders have long since mastered the art of pretending that the only thing that matters with his presidency is what it does, not what he says.

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Do I think police chiefs, many of which are African-American or Hispanic, wake up and say, 'Let's systemically oppress African-American communities?' No, I don't. Are there instances in which that happens? I'm sure there are.

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Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.

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Down with politics and the art of the possible; up with pronouncements and the allure of the prophetic: It's the way of demagogues everywhere.

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It may be a truism that the country cannot be strong abroad unless it is strong at home, but it's also a fact that the country's economic prosperity depends on its security abroad - not only in the core of the liberal democratic world but often well beyond it, too.

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I write my columns pretty carefully.

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I almost never listen to radio or watch political talk shows, especially if I happen to be on them.

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