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" 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. "

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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. "

Timothy Noah

Success

Wisdom

Enjoy

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

" No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The thing to strive for is to get paid to talk about yourself. "

" 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. "

" The idea that the business world's needs get ignored in Washington is perpetuated by business so it can fulfill even more of its needs, real or imagined. "

Timothy Noah

World

Washington

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

" Expressing truth is hard work. "

" Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so. "

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

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

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

" The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time. "

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

" In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Timothy Noah

Truth

Enough

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.' "

" 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. "