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" Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself. "
Timothy Noah
Election
View
Itself
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" The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted. "
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Than
Less
" We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls. "
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Someone
Nation
" The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy. "
Timothy Noah
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Government
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" 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. "
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Win
First
" Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds. "
Timothy Noah
Commitment
Say
Measure
" When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist. "
Timothy Noah
Try
Rich
Inequality
" When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet. "
Timothy Noah
Your
Regulations
Reach
" A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government. "
Timothy Noah
Class
Free
Middle
" It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought. "
Timothy Noah
Me
Never
Politician
" When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most. "
Timothy Noah
Conservative
Serious
Person
" Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in every animal experiment that might cause pain. "
Timothy Noah
Everyone
Pain
Animals
" With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion. "
Timothy Noah
Nothing
Awareness
Color
" We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much. "
Timothy Noah
Money
Need
College
" Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms. "
Timothy Noah
Economics
Place
Politics
" Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity. "
Timothy Noah
Say
Care
Equality
" Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative. "
Timothy Noah
Great
Discipline
Creativity
" 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
" In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them. "
Timothy Noah
Electronic
Involved
Friction
" The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined. "
Timothy Noah
More
World
Washington
" Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition. "
Timothy Noah
Democrats
Rule
Blame
" Right now, as I'm typing this, some liberal somewhere is saying something unforgivable about Michelle Bachmann or Ann Coulter. I condemn you, whoever you are! But I'm not going to conduct a house-to-house search to find you. "
Timothy Noah
You
Find
Now
" The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians. "
Timothy Noah
Court
Needs
Politicians
" Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance. "
Timothy Noah
More
Health
Finance
" To argue that universal health care would wreck the U.S. lead in cancer survival, you'd have to argue that universal health care would wreck the entire U.S. economy. "
Timothy Noah
Health
Survival
You
" 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
" Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth. "
Timothy Noah
Time
Had
Culture
" Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no? "
Timothy Noah
Gun
Law
Kind
" 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
" Capitalism can't deliver decent health care. "
Timothy Noah
Health Care
Capitalism
Care
" I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away from a millionaire in taxes. "
Timothy Noah
See
Away
Government