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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich. "

" The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class. "

" 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. "

" Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative. "

" 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. "

" Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds. "

" Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity. "

" I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression. "

" 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. "

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

" The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may be in the majority now, but someday it will be in the minority, and when that happens we'll want to block the other side's extremist agenda.' "

" When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet. "

" Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word. "

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

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

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

" With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion. "

" 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. "

" Right now, as I'm typing this, some liberal somewhere is saying something unforgivable about Michelle Bachmann or Ann Coulter. I condemn you, whoever you are! But I'm not going to conduct a house-to-house search to find you. "

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

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