106 Quotes by Bret Stephens

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.

My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.

Humanitarianism is commendable, but not when you're demanding that others share the burdens and expense.

A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.

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

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.

Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.

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.