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" It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought. "

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" Just about everything I own was made in China. Just about everything you own was made in China, too. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all. "

" Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure. "

" 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. "

" What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However many guys we have working on this problem, it can't possibly be enough. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.' "

" The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely. "

" The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians. "

" 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. "

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

" One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations. "

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

" The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time. "

" 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. "

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

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