106 Quotes by Bret Stephens

Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the most celebrated, was his refusal to accept an early release from his captors.

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

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

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.

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

I don't read 'Vanity Fair,' whose millionaire-fashionista-liberal shtick I find repellent.

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.

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.

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.