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

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" We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in each of the other 50 states, the likeliest explanation would be that someone had tampered with the polls. "

" Inequality doesn't create unhappiness. "

" 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. "

" The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change. "

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

" If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise. "

" On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details. "

" 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. "

" Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Working people vote! "

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

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

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

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

" Capitalism can't deliver decent health care. "

" 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. "

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

" Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around. "

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