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

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" What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress. "

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

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

" In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them. "

" 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. "

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

" Inequality doesn't create unhappiness. "

" 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. "

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

" President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president. "

" It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome. "

" Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all. "

" Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity. "

" The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in every animal experiment that might cause pain. "

" I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive. "

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

" The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians. "