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" 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. "

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" The gulf between Virginia and Maryland isn't only a function of geography. It's also sociological. Indeed, it's probably not much of an exaggeration to say that Maryland suburbanites and Virginia suburbanites constitute two mutually hostile tribes. "

" One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations. "

" The thing to strive for is to get paid to talk about yourself. "

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

" Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates. "

" Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama. "

" The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain. "

" The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians. "

" Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands. "

" Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition. "

" The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions. "

" 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. "

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

" Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Expressing truth is hard work. "

" 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. "

" Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all. "

" Inequality doesn't create unhappiness. "

" 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. "

" Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's. "

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

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