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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition. "

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

" We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education. "

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

" Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it. "

" Capitalism can't deliver decent health care. "

" 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. "

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

" What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for. "

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

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

" 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. "

" With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation. "

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

" What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war. "

" I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't. "

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