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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Timothy Noah

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Government

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

" Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value. "

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

" What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university. "

" 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. "

" The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members. "

" If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.' "

" 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. "

" Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery. "

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

Timothy Noah

Meaning

Language

" Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality. "

" Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs. "

" It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought. "

Timothy Noah

Never

Politician

" 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. "

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

" Working people vote! "

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