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" Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative. "

" If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it. "

" The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country. "

" The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible. "

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

" You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more. "

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

" 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. "

" GOP candidates routinely sign a pledge never, ever to raise taxes. Democratic candidates aren't even asked to sign a parallel pledge never, ever to cut entitlements. "

" 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. "

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

" The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that. "

" The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way. "

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

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

" President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president. "

" Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth. "

" Inequality doesn't create unhappiness. "

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

" 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. "

" Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates. "

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