Top 6 Bret Stephens Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The debate over the inherent benefits of Pax Americana should have been settled long ago. But history only settles great debates for as long as people can remember the history.”

— Bret Stephens

2. “A balance of power may seem plausible in theory. But the nature of power is that it seeks preeminence, not balance.”

— Bret Stephens

3. “Maybe there’s an explanation for why Americans seem congenitally disposed to ask “Why not?” rather than “Why?”

— Bret Stephens

4. “This is how we arrive at a broken-windows world: Rules are invoked but not enforced. Principles are idealized but not defended. International law is treated not as a complement to traditional geopolitical leadership but as the superior alternative to it.”

— Bret Stephens

5. “Debts and deficits do matter. But they’re not the only things that matter. And they matter to different countries in different ways at different times. The United States emerged from the Second World War with a debt-to-GDP ratio of more than 100 percent. Yet winning the war was an excellent investment of national resources.”

— Bret Stephens

6. “No great power can treat foreign policy as a spectator sport and hope to remain a great power.”

— Bret Stephens

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