Bret Stephens

I write my columns pretty carefully.

— Bret Stephens

Liberals always cry wolf.

— Bret Stephens

Free trade was once a Republican conviction.

— Bret Stephens

Institutionalized racism is an imaginary enemy.

— Bret Stephens

I will never vote for Donald Trump.

— Bret Stephens

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

— Bret Stephens

The only person who counts in the administration is the president of the United States.

— Bret Stephens

When Trump attacks the news media, he's kicking a wounded animal.

— Bret Stephens

An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.

— Bret Stephens

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

— Bret Stephens

The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.

— Bret Stephens

I have a very, very hard time voting for Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton.

— Bret Stephens

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

— Bret Stephens

Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about [Donald] Trump.

— Bret Stephens

The people we need to hear from most are the ones who make themselves heard least - except, of course, on Election…

— Bret Stephens

I don't think it is impossible to make the case to sensible Americans that far greater restrictions on their so-called gun rights…

— Bret Stephens

I think there's always merit in getting out of our ideological silos and being exposed to points of view with which we…

— Bret Stephens

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

— Bret Stephens

When it comes to trade, when it comes to standing up to countries like North Korea, when it comes to standing up…

— Bret Stephens

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

— Bret Stephens

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

— Bret Stephens

The best scientific evidence suggests temperatures are rising, and the best scientific evidence suggests man-made anthropogenic carbon emissions have some substantial thing…

— Bret Stephens

'Democratic socialism' is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And 'social democracy' - a term that better fits the…

— Bret Stephens

“Populism is not conservatism, which by definition entails resistance to public whims. Conservatives who seek to use populism for their own ends…

— Bret Stephens

Who knows better than you what it means to have a commander-in-chief who lived his entire life, who lived throughout the entire…

— Bret Stephens

Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you'd probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did…

— Bret Stephens

The intelligent defense of free speech should not rest on the notion that we must tolerate every form of speech, no matter…

— Bret Stephens

Hillary Clinton's record in office is dreadful. Her ideas are dreadful. They will make us less safe. So, but there is no…

— Bret Stephens

Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate - entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the…

— Bret Stephens

What is absolutely clear is that if Trump is the nominee, Republicans cannot win. Maybe they can't win with Rubio or Cruz…

— Bret Stephens

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

— Bret Stephens

The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.

— Bret Stephens

In taking care with language, we take care of ourselves.

— Bret Stephens

Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.

— Bret Stephens

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

— Bret Stephens

The United States can only lead a world that's prepared to follow.

— Bret Stephens

There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.

— Bret Stephens

In every generation, there's a strong tendency for everyone to think like everyone else.

— Bret Stephens

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

— Bret Stephens

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

— Bret Stephens