Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Timothy Noah

Eat

Budget

Related Quotes:

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

" 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. "

" GOP candidates routinely sign a pledge never, ever to raise taxes. Democratic candidates aren't even asked to sign a parallel pledge never, ever to cut entitlements. "

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

" 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. "

Timothy Noah

Protection

Military

" Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no? "

" Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth. "

Timothy Noah

Truth

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

Timothy Noah

Truth

Enough

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

Timothy Noah

Health

Finance

" 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.' "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all. "

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

" Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership. "

" Just about everything I own was made in China. Just about everything you own was made in China, too. "

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

Timothy Noah

Sat

Last

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority. "

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

" What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say. "

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

" No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne. "

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

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