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" We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts. "
Timothy Noah
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" Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. "
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" When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean. "
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" Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure. "
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" 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. "
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" Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates. "
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" President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election. "
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" 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. "
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" Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies. "
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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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" I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't. "
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" Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable. "
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" Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms. "
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