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" I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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

" Expressing truth is hard work. "

" 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. "

" When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean. "

" The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. "

" 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. "

" Working people vote! "

" Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom. "

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

" Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines. "

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

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

" Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding. "

" 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. "

" The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined. "

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" What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress. "

" Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word. "

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" 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.' "

" The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class. "

" 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. "

" Universities are basically socialist institutions. "

" 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. "

" With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation. "

" Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible. "

" 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. "

" In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it. "