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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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" The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off. "

" The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend such loans to members of the military. But civilians remain fair game. "

" 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. "

" No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. "

" Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support. "

" You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn't have a constituency, you might as well be town clerk of Toad Suck, Arkansas. "

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

" The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat. "

" Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on Sept. 11. He's a liar. He's an apologist for corrupt regimes. "

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

" 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. "

" I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away from a millionaire in taxes. "

" There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods. "

" Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila. "

" 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. "

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

" The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over. "

" Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important. "

" I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy. "

" Loopy as the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system is, it's better than what you'd probably get by putting such decisions in the federal government hands. "

" The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy. "

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

" I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't. "

" Universities are basically socialist institutions. "

" If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones. "

" 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. "

" Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable. "

" 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. "

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

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