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" The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place. "

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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. "

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

" The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat. "

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

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

" Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies. "

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

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

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

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

" When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet. "

" Expressing truth is hard work. "

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

" Inequality doesn't create unhappiness. "

" What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However many guys we have working on this problem, it can't possibly be enough. "

" Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible. "

" 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 $100 bill may be America's most successful export. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important. "

" The financial services industry is a ward of the state. "

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" Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable. "

" The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich. "

" An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government. "

" 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. "

" Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse. "

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

" For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch. "