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" 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. "

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" To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy. "

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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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" 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. "

" Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so. "

" I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama. "

" Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality. "

" Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable. "

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

" We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts. "

" The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat. "

" Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery. "

" When Grover Norquist launched his project to name anything and everything after Ronald Reagan, I humbly proposed that the deficit be re-christened 'the Reagan.' "

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

Timothy Noah

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" 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. "

" There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods. "

" There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases. "

" The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off. "

" The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country. "

" 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. "

" Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.' "

" The financial services industry is a ward of the state. "

" Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership. "

" Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms. "

" The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change. "

" Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts. "

" One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth. "

" The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich. "