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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Timothy Noah

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" The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. "

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

Timothy Noah

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

Timothy Noah

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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. "

" The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

Timothy Noah

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" 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. "

" Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions. "

" 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. "

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

" What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience. "

" Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy. "

" Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work. "

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

" Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all. "