Bret Stephens Quotes

There are only two kinds of politics. They are not radical or reactionary, or conservative and liberal, or even Democratic and Republican. There are only the politics of fear and the politics of trust.

Liberals always blame the other guy.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

In this closely divided nation, it satisfies no practical purpose for the entertainment elite to be identified as so intensely political and utterly one-sided.

I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.

There's an ideological belief on the left that you should not use nonpartisan tools.

I think the Right did us a service calling Obama a socialist for eight years. It inoculated us.

When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're suffering from a disease. It's called bull-imia, and it's the regurgitation of patent hyperbole.

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Centrism is bogus.

There are a lot of people whose livelihoods depend on keeping lots of conservatives terrified and ill-informed. The groups that exist to raise funds raise more funds when they endorse the crazier candidate.

I am not a centrist.

The Democrats in particular are do-nothing guys.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

I had to learn early on that where conservatives are concerned, the truth about them is the last thing anybody wants to report. It's the lies and distortions, the mischaracterizations, the character assassinations, that people want to report.