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" 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. "

Timothy Noah

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" For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch. "

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" 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. "

" Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" When Grover Norquist launched his project to name anything and everything after Ronald Reagan, I humbly proposed that the deficit be re-christened 'the Reagan.' "

" A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government. "

" One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil. "

" 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. "

" The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians. "

" Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth. "

" President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election. "

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

" I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama. "

" The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago. "

" 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. "

" The $100 bill may be America's most successful export. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist. "

" Working people vote! "

" 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. "

" We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much. "

" Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance. "

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" 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. "

" If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves. "

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

Timothy Noah

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