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" GOP candidates routinely sign a pledge never, ever to raise taxes. Democratic candidates aren't even asked to sign a parallel pledge never, ever to cut entitlements. "
Timothy Noah
Raise
Never
Democratic
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" 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. "
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" 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
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" Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president. "
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" 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. "
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People
" 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
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" You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn't have a constituency, you might as well be town clerk of Toad Suck, Arkansas. "
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You
World
" Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense. "
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Line
Us
" Expressing truth is hard work. "
Timothy Noah
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Work
" There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos. These guys make the millionaire schmoozers at the Aspen Ideas Festival look like short-order cooks. "
Timothy Noah
Better
World
Rich
" 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
" What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university. "
Timothy Noah
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Engine
Economic
" The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend such loans to members of the military. But civilians remain fair game. "
Timothy Noah
Congress
Off
Military
" Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on Sept. 11. He's a liar. He's an apologist for corrupt regimes. "
Timothy Noah
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Wrong
Run
" 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
" President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election. "
Timothy Noah
Strategy
Election
Think
" The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value. "
Timothy Noah
Perfect
Food
Good
" Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke. "
Timothy Noah
Long Time
Joke
Time
" In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it. "
Timothy Noah
Information
Meet
Along
" If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care. "
Timothy Noah
Medical
Care
Health
" The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.' "
Timothy Noah
Inevitable
Same
Result
" 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
" The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians. "
Timothy Noah
Court
Needs
Politicians
" It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought. "
Timothy Noah
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Never
Politician
" Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself. "
Timothy Noah
Election
View
Itself
" The financial services industry is a ward of the state. "
Timothy Noah
Financial
Financial Services
Industry
" Working people vote! "
Timothy Noah
Vote
People
Working
" Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity. "
Timothy Noah
Say
Care
Equality
" 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
" It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts. "
Timothy Noah
Obamacare
Bent
Reform
" In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them. "
Timothy Noah
Electronic
Involved
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