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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. "
Timothy Noah
Come
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" On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details. "
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" We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn in the rococo political drama has a secure place as the lead story. "
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" What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress. "
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" Expressing truth is hard work. "
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" There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases. "
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" Just about everything I own was made in China. Just about everything you own was made in China, too. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure. "
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More
Pressure
" Inequality doesn't create unhappiness. "
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" The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free. "
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" A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government. "
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Free
Middle
" Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs. "
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Technology
Sales
" In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them. "
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Involved
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" What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for. "
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Pay
Government
" The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted. "
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Than
Less
" Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies. "
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Association
Gun
" 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. "
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Discipline
Creativity
" It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought. "
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" The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy. "
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" 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. "
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Rich
Society
American
" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible. "
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" The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over. "
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" The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that. "
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" If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care. "
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" Under Obama, income growth has been confined almost entirely to those at the top of the income distribution, continuing a pattern that began under President George W. Bush. "
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President