Bret Stephens Quotes

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Bret Stephens

Profession : Journalist

Birth : November 21, 1973

I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.

Bret Stephens

For the anti-Semite, the problems of the world can invariably be ascribed to the Jews; for the Communist, to the capitalists.

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Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.

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The criterion for racism is either objective or it's meaningless: If liberals get to decide for themselves who is or isn't a racist according to their political lights, conservatives will be within their rights to ignore them.

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We elected Donald J. Trump to keep us jittery and entertained. He's delivered.

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Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate - entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the world - turns out to be negotiable and reversible, depending on Donald Trump's whims and the furies of his base.

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Ignore Trump's tweets. Yes, it's unrealistic. But we would all be better off if the media reported them more rarely, reacted to them less strongly, and treated them with less alarm and more bemusement.

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I'm simply here to say guns should be owned by responsible people, and there should be high tests and a high bar to prove your responsibility.

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What too many of Mr. Trump's supporters want is an American strongman, a president who will make the proverbial trains run on time.

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Perhaps if there were less certitude about our climate future, more Americans would be interested in having a reasoned conversation about it.

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I don't see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it's slightly less bad than the opposition.

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The most interesting conversation is not about why Donald Trump lies. Many public figures lie, and he's only a severe example of a common type. The interesting conversation concerns how we come to accept those lies.

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There was a time when the conservative movement was led by the likes of Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol and Bob Bartley, men of ideas who invested the Republican Party with intellectual seriousness.

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I think that for the United States, Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about Donald Trump.

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My wife is German, so I know something about German energy policy.

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Countries we love will inevitably do things we don't like or fail to understand. The same goes for people.

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I am sorry that Mr. Cheney, and every other supporter of enhanced interrogation techniques, has to defend the practices as if they were torture. They are not.

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I wear two hats at the 'Wall Street Journal': one as a columnist, the other as the editor responsible for our editorial pages in Asia and Europe.

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Demanding abrupt and expensive changes in public policy raises fair questions about ideological intentions.

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Every president inherits a mixed bag when he comes to office, and Obama's was hardly the worst.

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