Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country. "
Timothy Noah
Election
Results
Talk
Related Quotes:
" When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most. "
Timothy Noah
Conservative
Serious
Person
" 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
" I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama. "
Timothy Noah
Come
Price
Tuition
" A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government. "
Timothy Noah
Class
Free
Middle
" Inequality doesn't create unhappiness. "
Timothy Noah
Create
Inequality
Unhappiness
" 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
" Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. "
Timothy Noah
Most
Ideas
Save
" Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible. "
Timothy Noah
Student Loans
Student
Possible
" The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country. "
Timothy Noah
United States
Anything
Country
" 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
" What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war. "
Timothy Noah
Country
Remember
Fight
" The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat. "
Timothy Noah
Worst
Vote
Right
" You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome. "
Timothy Noah
Effort
Inequality
Reward
" The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about. "
Timothy Noah
Years
Degree
Government
" 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
" 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. "
Timothy Noah
Results
Someone
Nation
" If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones. "
Timothy Noah
Supreme Court
Believe
People
" I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy. "
Timothy Noah
Buy
Consumer
Two
" Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure. "
Timothy Noah
Respond
More
Pressure
" One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil. "
Timothy Noah
Imagine
Violent
Evil
" When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our politics went wrong. "
Timothy Noah
Care
Politics
Street
" 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
" 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
" If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education. "
Timothy Noah
World
Commitment
Education
" The $100 bill may be America's most successful export. "
Timothy Noah
May
Successful
Export
" There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases. "
Timothy Noah
Committed
Democrats
Greenhouse
" Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery. "
Timothy Noah
New
Fascist
Energy
" Under Obama, income growth has been confined almost entirely to those at the top of the income distribution, continuing a pattern that began under President George W. Bush. "
Timothy Noah
Almost
Top
President
" Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all. "
Timothy Noah
Kid
Republican
You
" I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't. "
Timothy Noah
Pharmaceutical
Fix
Health