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" The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome. "

" Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself. "

" 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. "

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