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" Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country. "

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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. "

" Expressing truth is hard work. "

" 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. "

" In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death. "

" 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. "

" The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted. "

" 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. "

" Inequality doesn't create unhappiness. "

" When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most. "

" In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Working people vote! "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive. "

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

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

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

" The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free. "

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

" Universities are basically socialist institutions. "

" 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. "

" To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts. "