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" Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense. "
Timothy Noah
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" I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression. "
Timothy Noah
Crash
Been
Bank
" Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse. "
Timothy Noah
Day
Future
Good
" Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality. "
Timothy Noah
Equality
Freedom
Talk
" The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted. "
Timothy Noah
White
Than
Less
" Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country. "
Timothy Noah
Election
Results
Talk
" Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions. "
Timothy Noah
Man
Intelligent
Experience
" Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom. "
Timothy Noah
Two
Baby
Difficulty
" A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government. "
Timothy Noah
Class
Free
Middle
" One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations. "
Timothy Noah
Turn
Why
Job
" Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important. "
Timothy Noah
Work
Teacher
Say
" The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis. "
Timothy Noah
Violence
Perspective
American
" I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive. "
Timothy Noah
Taxes
Only
Little
" Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority. "
Timothy Noah
America
Win
First
" What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience. "
Timothy Noah
Come
Experience
Worth
" The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. "
Timothy Noah
Rich
Society
American
" Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama. "
Timothy Noah
Income
Worse
President
" The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago. "
Timothy Noah
Government
Business
Small
" Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it. "
Timothy Noah
Success
Wisdom
Enjoy
" Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support. "
Timothy Noah
Always
Global Warming
Support
" The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over. "
Timothy Noah
Excess
Wall
Street
" The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class. "
Timothy Noah
United States
Middle
Class
" In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death. "
Timothy Noah
Welcome
Death
Mountain
" Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs. "
Timothy Noah
Logic
Technology
Sales
" Inequality doesn't create unhappiness. "
Timothy Noah
Create
Inequality
Unhappiness
" It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought. "
Timothy Noah
Me
Never
Politician
" The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet. "
Timothy Noah
Society
Will
People
" Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines. "
Timothy Noah
More
Than
Toxic
" We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts. "
Timothy Noah
Stupid
Bear
Change
" You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more. "
Timothy Noah
You
Taxes
Say
" The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may be in the majority now, but someday it will be in the minority, and when that happens we'll want to block the other side's extremist agenda.' "
Timothy Noah
Want
Side
Now