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" On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win. "

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" Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite. "

" The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest. "

" A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on. "

" Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you. "

" Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms. "

" I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration. "

" Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship. "

" Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do. "

" Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations. "

" What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes. "

" When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else. "

" Even if there's no way to stop U.S. corporations from shedding their U.S. identities and becoming foreign corporations, there's no reason they should retain the privileges of U.S. citizenship. "

" If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy. "

" During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough to buy what they produced. "

" The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives. "

" A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important. "

" We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide. "

" As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art, and other assets. The income from these assets is now concentrating even faster than income from work. "

" Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans. "

" By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie. "

" Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get new jobs that pay better, many lose their jobs or their wages. "

" Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world. "

" True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going. "

" The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. "

" The Tea Party grew out of indignation over the Wall Street bailout - an indignation shared by the vast majority of Americans. But the Tea Party ended up directing its ire at government rather than at big business and Wall Street. "

" Rather than subsidize 'American' exporters, it makes more sense to subsidize any global company - to the extent it's adding to its exports from the United States. "

" There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. "

" It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one. "

" Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them. "

" One tax dodge often used by multi-national companies is to squirrel their earnings abroad in foreign subsidiaries located in countries where taxes are lower. "