“There is something kind of aggressively and inhumanly repetitive about...” — Bret Stephens Quote

“There is something kind of aggressively and inhumanly repetitive about this line that guns are essential to American liberties - hard one to stomach when so many thousands of people are dying every year for this so-called liberty.”

“Do I think police chiefs, many of which are African-American or Hispanic, wake up and say, 'Let's systemically oppress African-American communities?' No, I don't. Are there instances in which that happens? I'm sure there are.”

“I grew up in Mexico City at a time when the country was a repressive one-party dictatorship almost wholly dependent on oil revenues.”

“I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.”

“People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.”

“I was the executer of our mother's trust. She asked me to hold onto the house for 10 years and then sell it. I think that was because it was so hard to face dying and think of all her most prized possessions no longer being a part of our lives as well. Business wise, it was a terrible investment, because we were losing money.”