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" The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations. "

" 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. "

" Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. "

" In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn in the rococo political drama has a secure place as the lead story. "

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

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

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

" One can imagine nonviolent or minimally violent ways to reduce or eliminate hatred, but there's no mollifying evil. "

" Universities are basically socialist institutions. "

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

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

" Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative. "

" 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. "

" To argue that universal health care would wreck the U.S. lead in cancer survival, you'd have to argue that universal health care would wreck the entire U.S. economy. "

" 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. "

" The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy. "

" Right now, as I'm typing this, some liberal somewhere is saying something unforgivable about Michelle Bachmann or Ann Coulter. I condemn you, whoever you are! But I'm not going to conduct a house-to-house search to find you. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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