106 Quotes by Bret Stephens

Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.

Barack Obama is probably the coolest president this country will ever have.

The best scientific evidence suggests temperatures are rising, and the best scientific evidence suggests man-made anthropogenic carbon emissions have some substantial thing to do with that. However, does that mean the trend will continue forever? We don't know.

If the Republican party essentially becomes the white party, it is going to be the death of it, not only for demographic reasons but for reasons of principle. The party of Lincoln is a party of opportunity for everyone. It's a party about the right to rise, and Mr. Trump unfortunately doesn't represent that view.

Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.

I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.

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

No adviser to a president is going to get his way all of the time, but at a minimum, that adviser should be able to defend the tilt of an administration's policy as if it were his own. If not, he should make room for those who can.

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