106 Quotes by Bret Stephens

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

I will never vote for Donald Trump.

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

All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.

Institutionalized racism is an imaginary enemy.

I write my columns pretty carefully.

The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.

In place of presidential addresses, stump speeches, or town halls, we have Trump's demagogic mass rallies. In place of the usual jousting between the administration and the press, we have a president who fantasizes on Twitter about physically assaulting CNN.

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.