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" An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government. "

" A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government. "

" Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work. "

" 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. "

" Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense. "

" Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around. "

" Capitalism can't deliver decent health care. "

" Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity. "

" 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. "

" Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila. "

" Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. "

" Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Expressing truth is hard work. "

" Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no? "

" For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch. "

" 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. "

" Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies. "

" Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance. "

" 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. "

" If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones. "

" If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves. "

" If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it. "

" If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned. "

" If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.' "

" 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. "

" If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care. "

" I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive. "

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