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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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 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. "

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" A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government. "

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